Root

ح-ك-م

ḥkm·7-k-m

210 occurrences189 verses12 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
حَكِيمḥakīm97—
حَكَمَḥakama45—
حُكْمḥukm30—
حِكْمَةḥikmah20—
حاكِمḥākim5—
حَكَمḥakam3—
مُحْكَمَةmuḥkamah2—
يُحَكِّمُyuḥakkimu2—
أُحْكِمَتْuḥkimat2—
أَحْكَمaḥkam2—
حُكّامḥukkām1—
يَتَحاكَمُyataḥākamu1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ح-ك-م

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 Iفَعَلَ51×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • حَكَمَḥakama45
    • حاكِمḥākim5
    • حُكّامḥukkām1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يُحَكِّمُyuḥakkimu2
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ4×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • مُحْكَمَةmuḥkamah2
    • أُحْكِمَتْuḥkimat2
  4. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ1×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • يَتَحاكَمُyataḥākamu1

Covers 58 of this root’s 210 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-ك-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ح-ك-م falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ح-ك-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 149 of 604 pages (25%)

Densest in juzʾ 6 (19 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 21 pages — pages 307–327, juzʾ 16–17.

Occurrences · 210 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-ك-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ح-ك-م (ḥkm) occurs 210 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 189 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-ك-م occur?

189 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ح-ك-م (ḥkm), out of 210 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ح-ك-م?

ح-ك-م (ḥkm) yields 12 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently حَكِيم (ḥakīm, 97×), حَكَمَ (ḥakama, 45×), حُكْم (ḥukm, 30×), حِكْمَة (ḥikmah, 20×), and حاكِم (ḥākim, 5×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.