Root

ع-و-ذ

ʿwdh·3-w-dh

17 occurrences17 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عُذْʿudh10
اسْتَعِذْāstaʿidh4
مَعاذmaʿādh2
أُعِيذُuʿīdhu1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-و-ذ

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 Iفَعَلَ10×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • عُذْʿudh10
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أُعِيذُuʿīdhu1
  3. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ4×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَعِذْāstaʿidh4

Covers 15 of this root’s 17 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 ع-و-ذ more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ع-و-ذ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-و-ذ 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 15 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 24 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 121 pages — pages 55175, juzʾ 39.

Occurrences · 17 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 ع-و-ذ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-و-ذ (ʿwdh) occurs 17 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 17 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 ع-و-ذ occur?

17 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-و-ذ (ʿwdh), out of 17 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-و-ذ?

ع-و-ذ (ʿwdh) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عُذْ (ʿudh, 10×), اسْتَعِذْ (āstaʿidh, 4×), مَعاذ (maʿādh, 2×), and أُعِيذُ (uʿīdhu, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.