عَذَاب
ʿadhāb: punishment
The 36th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
عَذَاب (ʿadhāb) means "punishment". It appears 322 times in the Quran, making it the 36th most common word: about 0.42% of all the words you read.
#36most common word
322times in the Quran
0.42%of all the words
306ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
فَبَشِّرْهُم بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ
Al-Inshiqaq 84:24 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:7.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways عَذَاب is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- عَذَابٌ77×
- عَذَابًا38×
- عَذَابَ37×
- ٱلْعَذَابِ35×
- ٱلْعَذَابَ28×
The count includes every form of the word: singular and plural, and with endings like "the", "and" or "his" attached.
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.