Arabic root

ن-ص-ب

Nun-Sad-Ba

2 words from this root family

About this root

Nun-Sad-Ba (ن-ص-ب) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: naṣīb (share / portion / lot), manaṣṣa (platform).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 32 times in 29 verses, across 19 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:202. The form نَصِيبٌ (share / portion / lot) accounts for 21 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Technology Media

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
نَصِيبٌ naṣīb	share / portion / lot	noun, B1	21×	Reward, Recompense, and Deeds
مَنْصَّة manaṣṣa	platform	noun, B1		Innovation & Progress

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ لَهُمْ نَصِيبٌ مِّمَّا كَسَبُوا۟ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ سَرِيعُ ٱلْحِسَابِ

For them there is in store a goodly portion out of that which they have earned. Allah is swift at reckoning.

Quran 2:202

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِنَّمَا ٱلْخَمْرُ وَٱلْمَيْسِرُ وَٱلْأَنصَابُ وَٱلْأَزْلَـٰمُ رِجْسٌ مِّنْ عَمَلِ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنِ فَٱجْتَنِبُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ

O ye who believe! Strong drink and games of chance and idols and divining arrows are only an infamy of Satan's handiwork. Leave it aside in order that ye may succeed.

Quran 5:90

لَا يَمَسُّهُمْ فِيهَا نَصَبٌ وَمَا هُم مِّنْهَا بِمُخْرَجِينَ

Toil cometh not unto them there, nor will they be expelled from thence.

Quran 15:48

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).