Root

ح-م-د

ḥmd·7-m-d

68 occurrences66 verses7 forms

Core sense · interpretive

praise, laudation (ḥamd).

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
حَمْدḥamd43—
حَمِيدḥamīd17—
مُحَمَّدmuḥammad4—
يُحْمَدُyuḥmadu1—
حامِدḥāmid1—
مَحْمُودmaḥmūd1—
أَحْمَدaḥmad1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ح-م-د 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 61 of 604 pages (10%)

Densest in juzʾ 22 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 49 pages — pages 156–204, juzʾ 8–11.

Occurrences · 68 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-م-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ح-م-د (ḥmd) occurs 68 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 66 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-م-د occur?

66 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ح-م-د (ḥmd), out of 68 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ح-م-د?

ح-م-د (ḥmd) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently حَمْد (ḥamd, 43×), حَمِيد (ḥamīd, 17×), مُحَمَّد (muḥammad, 4×), يُحْمَدُ (yuḥmadu, 1×), and حامِد (ḥāmid, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.

What does the root ح-م-د mean?

The core sense of ح-م-د (ḥmd) is praise, laudation (ḥamd). This is an interpretive gloss, not a computed result: a root's range of meaning is a lexicographical judgement, and the sense a particular verse carries depends on its context and on the tafsīr tradition.