Root

ح-و-ل

ḥwl·7-w-l

25 occurrences25 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
حَوْلḥawl17
حالَḥāla3
تَحْوِيلtaḥwīl3
حِيلَةḥīlah1
حِوَلḥiwal1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ح-و-ل

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 Iفَعَلَ3×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • حالَḥāla3
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ3×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • تَحْوِيلtaḥwīl3

Covers 6 of this root’s 25 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-و-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ح-و-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ح-و-ل 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 23 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 15 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 99 pages — pages 506604, juzʾ 2630.

Occurrences · 25 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-و-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ح-و-ل (ḥwl) occurs 25 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 25 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-و-ل occur?

25 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ح-و-ل (ḥwl), out of 25 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ح-و-ل?

ح-و-ل (ḥwl) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently حَوْل (ḥawl, 17×), حالَ (ḥāla, 3×), تَحْوِيل (taḥwīl, 3×), حِيلَة (ḥīlah, 1×), and حِوَل (ḥiwal, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.