Root

ح-ف-ظ

ḥfẓ·7-f-z9

44 occurrences42 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
حافِظḥāfiẓ13—
حَفِيظḥafīẓ12—
حَفِظَḥafiẓa7—
يُحافِظُyuḥāfiẓu4—
حِفْظḥifẓ3—
حافِظَةḥāfiẓah2—
مَحْفُوظmaḥfūẓ2—
اسْتُحْفِظُāstuḥfiẓu1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ح-ف-ظ

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 Iفَعَلَ36×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • حافِظḥāfiẓ13
    • حَفِيظḥafīẓ12
    • حَفِظَḥafiẓa7
    • حافِظَةḥāfiẓah2
    • مَحْفُوظmaḥfūẓ2
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ4×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • يُحافِظُyuḥāfiẓu4
  3. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ1×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتُحْفِظُāstuḥfiẓu1

Covers 41 of this root’s 44 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 ح-ف-ظ more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ح-ف-ظ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ح-ف-ظ 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 36 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 13 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 68 pages — pages 354–421, juzʾ 18–21.

Occurrences · 44 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 ح-ف-ظ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ح-ف-ظ (ḥfẓ) occurs 44 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 42 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 ح-ف-ظ occur?

42 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ح-ف-ظ (ḥfẓ), out of 44 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ح-ف-ظ?

ح-ف-ظ (ḥfẓ) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently حافِظ (ḥāfiẓ, 13×), حَفِيظ (ḥafīẓ, 12×), حَفِظَ (ḥafiẓa, 7×), يُحافِظُ (yuḥāfiẓu, 4×), and حِفْظ (ḥifẓ, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.