Root

ف-ح-ش

fḥsh·f-7-sh

24 occurrences23 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
فاحِشَةfāḥishah17—
فَحْشاءfaḥshā7—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ف-ح-ش falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ف-ح-ش 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 22 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 8 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 77 pages — pages 161–237, juzʾ 8–12.

Occurrences · 24 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 ف-ح-ش appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ف-ح-ش (fḥsh) occurs 24 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 23 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 ف-ح-ش occur?

23 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ف-ح-ش (fḥsh), out of 24 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ف-ح-ش?

ف-ح-ش (fḥsh) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently فاحِشَة (fāḥishah, 17×) and فَحْشاء (faḥshā, 7×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.