Arabic root

ر-ك-ب

Ra-Kaf-Ba

2 words from this root family

About this root

Ra-Kaf-Ba (ر-ك-ب) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: rakiba (to ride / to board), rukba (knee).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 15 times in 15 verses, across 13 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:239. The form رَكِبَ (to ride / to board) accounts for 9 of them.

Themes: Verbs, Motion, Travel, Health, Body

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
رَكِبَ rakiba	to ride / to board	verb, A1	9×	Action Verbs - Movement & Travel
رُكْبة rukba	knee	noun, A2		Describing Health & Feelings

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

In the Quran

فَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ فَرِجَالًا أَوْ رُكْبَانًا ۖ فَإِذَآ أَمِنتُمْ فَٱذْكُرُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ كَمَا عَلَّمَكُم مَّا لَمْ تَكُونُوا۟ تَعْلَمُونَ

And if ye go in fear, then (pray) standing or on horseback. And when ye are again in safety, remember Allah, as He hath taught you that which (heretofore) ye knew not.

Quran 2:239

۞ وَقَالَ ٱرْكَبُوا۟ فِيهَا بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ مَجْر۪ىٰهَا وَمُرْسَىٰهَآ ۚ إِنَّ رَبِّى لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ

And he said: Embark therein! In the name of Allah be its course and its mooring. Lo! my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.

Quran 11:41

وَذَلَّلْنَـٰهَا لَهُمْ فَمِنْهَا رَكُوبُهُمْ وَمِنْهَا يَأْكُلُونَ

And have subdued them unto them, so that some of them they have for riding, some for food?

Quran 36:72

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).