Arabic root

ق-ل-ب

Qaf-Lam-Ba

3 words from this root family

About this root

Qaf-Lam-Ba (ق-ل-ب) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: qalb (heart / core / center), qalb (heart), inqilāb (coup / overthrow).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 168 times in 155 verses, across 48 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:7. The form قَلْبٌ (heart / core / center) accounts for 132 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Health, Body, Media Politics

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
قَلْبٌ qalb	heart / core / center	noun, A1	132×	Life, Death, and the Hereafter
قَلْب qalb	heart	noun, A2	132×	Parts of the Body
اِنْقِلَاب inqilāb	coup / overthrow	noun, B2		Political Movements

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

In the Quran

خَتَمَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَعَلَىٰ سَمْعِهِمْ ۖ وَعَلَىٰٓ أَبْصَـٰرِهِمْ غِشَـٰوَةٌ ۖ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ

Allah hath sealed their hearing and their hearts, and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be an awful doom.

Quran 2:7

لِيَقْطَعَ طَرَفًا مِّنَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ أَوْ يَكْبِتَهُمْ فَيَنقَلِبُوا۟ خَآئِبِينَ

That He may cut off a part of those who disbelieve, or overwhelm them so that they retire, frustrated.

Quran 3:127

لَا يَغُرَّنَّكَ تَقَلُّبُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ فِى ٱلْبِلَـٰدِ

Let not the vicissitude (of the success) of those who disbelieve, in the land, deceive thee (O Muhammad).

Quran 3:196

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).

Word cards with examples

A1noun

قَلْبٌ

qalb

heart / core / center

Example

أَلَا بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ تَطْمَئِنُّ الْقُلُوبُ

alā bi-dhikri Allāhi taṭmaʾinnu al-qulūb

Unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah hearts find rest (13:28)

Root: ق-ل-ب Quranic

Grammar

Masculine noun. Plural: قُلُوبٌ (qulūb). In the Quran, the heart is the seat of understanding, faith, and spiritual perception - not just emotion.

Culture

The heart (qalb) in Quranic anthropology is the center of intellect, faith, and intention. A sound heart (qalb salīm) is what matters on Judgment Day (26:89).

A2noun

قَلْب

qalb