Arabic root

ص-ب-ح

Sad-Ba-Ha

4 words from this root family

About this root

Sad-Ba-Ha (ص-ب-ح) has 4 words in the Fahm dictionary: ṣabāḥu al-khayri (good morning), tuṣbiḥu ʿalā khayrin (good night), ṣabāḥ (morning), aṣbaḥa (to become / to start the morning).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 45 times in 43 verses, across 25 of the 114 suras. The first is in 3:103. The form أَصْبَحَ (to become / to start the morning) accounts for 28 of them.

Themes: Greetings, Basics, Time, Verbs, Advanced Verbs

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
صَبَاحُ الْخَيْرِ ṣabāḥu al-khayri	good morning	phrase, A1		First Words - Essential Greetings
تُصْبِحُ عَلَى خَيْرٍ tuṣbiḥu ʿalā khayrin	good night	phrase, A1		More Greetings & Courtesies
صَبَاح ṣabāḥ	morning	noun, A1	1×	Telling Time
أَصْبَحَ aṣbaḥa	to become / to start the morning	verb, A1	28×	Action Verbs - Making & Creating

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

In the Quran

فَطَوَّعَتْ لَهُۥ نَفْسُهُۥ قَتْلَ أَخِيهِ فَقَتَلَهُۥ فَأَصْبَحَ مِنَ ٱلْخَـٰسِرِينَ

But (the other's) mind imposed on him the killing of his brother, so he slew him and became one of the losers.

Quran 5:30

فَالِقُ ٱلْإِصْبَاحِ وَجَعَلَ ٱلَّيْلَ سَكَنًا وَٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ حُسْبَانًا ۚ ذَٰلِكَ تَقْدِيرُ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْعَلِيمِ

He is the Cleaver of the Daybreak, and He hath appointed the night for stillness, and the sun and the moon for reckoning. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise.

Quran 6:96

فَإِذَا نَزَلَ بِسَاحَتِهِمْ فَسَآءَ صَبَاحُ ٱلْمُنذَرِينَ

But when it cometh home to them, then it will be a hapless morning for those who have been warned.

Quran 37:177

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).