Root

أ-خ-ر

khr·2-kh-r

250 occurrences242 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
آخِرākhir155—
آخَرākhar70—
أَخَّرَakhkhara15—
يَسْتَأْخِرُyastaʾkhiru6—
تَأَخَّرَtaʾakhkhara3—
مُسْتَأْخِرmustaʾkhir1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on أ-خ-ر

The same words as the table above, grouped by the wazn they are built on. Form assignment and counts are read from the morphology; what each form means is classical grammar — a tendency, not a rule, so a given word may sit outside its form’s usual sense.

  1. Form IIفَعَّلَ15×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • أَخَّرَakhkhara15
  2. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ3×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَأَخَّرَtaʾakhkhara3
  3. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ7×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • يَسْتَأْخِرُyastaʾkhiru6
    • مُسْتَأْخِرmustaʾkhir1

Covers 25 of this root’s 250 occurrences — the rest are nouns, participles and particles the morphology assigns no verb form.

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with أ-خ-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where أ-خ-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-خ-ر occurs on it. Counted, not interpreted — a bright page is where the word is dense, which is a fact about vocabulary and not a claim about what the page teaches.

lessmoreon 198 of 604 pages (33%)

Densest in juzʾ 14 (12 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 20 pages — pages 293–312, juzʾ 15–16.

Occurrences · 250 in mushaf order

Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, with morphology from the Quranic Arabic Corpus. How we count →

Questions

How many times does the root أ-خ-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-خ-ر (khr) occurs 250 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 242 distinct verses. Counted on the quran-uthmani text (Tanzil.net) in the recitation of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim, using the Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology. “Occurrences” counts every word token derived from the root — a root appearing twice in one verse counts twice — which is why it exceeds the verse count.

In how many verses does أ-خ-ر occur?

242 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-خ-ر (khr), out of 250 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-خ-ر?

أ-خ-ر (khr) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently آخِر (ākhir, 155×), آخَر (ākhar, 70×), أَخَّرَ (akhkhara, 15×), يَسْتَأْخِرُ (yastaʾkhiru, 6×), and تَأَخَّرَ (taʾakhkhara, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.