176 times in the Quran · 1 word form · rank 57

The Quran root س ب ل s-b-l

Words built from the root س ب ل ([s-b-l]) appear 176 times in the Quran. The most common is سَبِيل, “way”, which comes 176 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

Word	Say it	Meaning	Times
سَبِيل	sabiil	way · path	176

Examples from the Quran

أَمْ تُرِيدُونَ أَن تَسْأَلُوا رَسُولَكُمْ كَمَا سُئِلَ مُوسَىٰ مِن قَبْلُ وَمَن يَتَبَدَّلِ الْكُفْرَ بِالْإِيمَانِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ سَوَاءَ السَّبِيلِ ١٠٨

السَّبِيلِ l-sabīli · (of) the way

Or do you intend to ask your Messenger as Moses was asked before? And whoever exchanges faith for disbelief has certainly strayed from the soundness of the way. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:108)

وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَن يُقْتَلُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتٌ بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ وَلَٰكِن لَّا تَشْعُرُونَ ١٥٤

سَبِيلِ sabīli · (the) way

And do not say about those who are killed in the way of Allāh, "They are dead." Rather, they are alive, but you perceive [it] not. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:154)

Surahs where it comes most

Each meaning is taken from the word-by-word translation of the verses, so a word can show two meanings from different contexts. Root and base-word data come from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.