Root

ح-ي-ي

ḥyy·7-y-y

189 occurrences166 verses13 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
حَياةḥayāh76—
أَحْياaḥyā51—
حَيّḥayy24—
يَسْتَحْىِۦyastaḥāi9—
حَىَّḥḥāa7—
تَحِيَّةtaḥiyyah6—
يَحْيَىyaḥyā5—
حَيَّḥayya4—
مَحْياmaḥyā2—
مُحْىmuḥā2—
حَيَّةḥayyah1—
اسْتِحْياءāstiḥyā1—
حَيَوانḥayawān1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ح-ي-ي

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 Iفَعَلَ7×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • حَىَّḥḥāa7
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ10×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • تَحِيَّةtaḥiyyah6
    • حَيَّḥayya4
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ53×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَحْياaḥyā51
    • مُحْىmuḥā2
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ10×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • يَسْتَحْىِۦyastaḥāi9
    • اسْتِحْياءāstiḥyā1

Covers 80 of this root’s 189 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-ي-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ح-ي-ي falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ح-ي-ي 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 150 of 604 pages (25%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (13 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 28 pages — pages 224–251, juzʾ 12–13.

Occurrences · 189 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-ي-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ح-ي-ي (ḥyy) occurs 189 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 166 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-ي-ي occur?

166 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ح-ي-ي (ḥyy), out of 189 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ح-ي-ي?

ح-ي-ي (ḥyy) yields 13 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently حَياة (ḥayāh, 76×), أَحْيا (aḥyā, 51×), حَيّ (ḥayy, 24×), يَسْتَحْىِۦ (yastaḥāi, 9×), and حَىَّ (ḥḥāa, 7×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.