Root

أ-ل-م

lm·2-l-m

75 occurrences73 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَلِيمalīm72
يَأْلَمُyaʾlamu3

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where أ-ل-م falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-ل-م 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 70 of 604 pages (12%)

Densest in juzʾ 10 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 51 pages — pages 284334, juzʾ 1517.

Occurrences · 75 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-ل-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-ل-م (lm) occurs 75 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 73 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-ل-م occur?

73 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-ل-م (lm), out of 75 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-ل-م?

أ-ل-م (lm) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَلِيم (alīm, 72×) and يَأْلَمُ (yaʾlamu, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.