Arabic root

س-ب-ل

Sin-Ba-Lam

1 word from this root family

About this root

Sin-Ba-Lam (س-ب-ل) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: sabīl (way / path).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 176 times in 164 verses, across 47 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:108. The form سَبِيلٌ (way / path) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
سَبِيلٌ sabīl	way / path	noun, A1	176×	The Most Frequent Words (Part 3)

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

In the Quran

أَمْ تُرِيدُونَ أَن تَسْـَٔلُوا۟ رَسُولَكُمْ كَمَا سُئِلَ مُوسَىٰ مِن قَبْلُ ۗ وَمَن يَتَبَدَّلِ ٱلْكُفْرَ بِٱلْإِيمَـٰنِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ سَوَآءَ ٱلسَّبِيلِ

Or would ye question your messenger as Moses was questioned aforetime? He who chooseth disbelief instead of faith, verily he hath gone astray from a plain road.

Quran 2:108

وَلَا تَقُولُوا۟ لِمَن يُقْتَلُ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ أَمْوَٰتٌۢ ۚ بَلْ أَحْيَآءٌ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا تَشْعُرُونَ

And call not those who are slain in the way of Allah "dead." Nay, they are living, only ye perceive not.

Quran 2:154

وَقَـٰتِلُوا۟ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلَّذِينَ يُقَـٰتِلُونَكُمْ وَلَا تَعْتَدُوٓا۟ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلْمُعْتَدِينَ

Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors.

Quran 2:190

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).