Root

د-ل-ل

dll·d-l-l

8 occurrences8 verses2 forms

Core sense · interpretive

to stray, go astray (ḍalāl, ḍāllīn).

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
دَلَّdalla7—
دَلِيلdalīl1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where د-ل-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times د-ل-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 8 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 161 pages — pages 153–313, juzʾ 8–16.

Occurrences · 8 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 د-ل-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root د-ل-ل (dll) occurs 8 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 8 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 د-ل-ل occur?

8 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from د-ل-ل (dll), out of 8 total occurrences.

What words come from the root د-ل-ل?

د-ل-ل (dll) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently دَلَّ (dalla, 7×) and دَلِيل (dalīl, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.

What does the root د-ل-ل mean?

The core sense of د-ل-ل (dll) is to stray, go astray (ḍalāl, ḍāllīn). 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.