Root

ه-ل-ك

hlk·h-l-k

68 occurrences63 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَهْلَكَahlaka51
هَلَكَhalaka5
مُهْلِكmuhlik5
هالِكhālik2
مَهْلِكmahlik2
تَهْلُكَةtahlukah1
مُهْلَكmuhlak1
مُهْلِكِيmuhlikī1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ه-ل-ك

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

    • هَلَكَhalaka5
    • هالِكhālik2
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ57×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَهْلَكَahlaka51
    • مُهْلِكmuhlik5
    • مُهْلَكmuhlak1

Covers 64 of this root’s 68 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 ه-ل-ك more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ه-ل-ك falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ه-ل-ك 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 58 of 604 pages (10%)

Densest in juzʾ 20 (7 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 40 pages — pages 66105, juzʾ 46.

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 ه-ل-ك appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ه-ل-ك (hlk) occurs 68 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 63 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 ه-ل-ك occur?

63 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ه-ل-ك (hlk), out of 68 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ه-ل-ك?

ه-ل-ك (hlk) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَهْلَكَ (ahlaka, 51×), هَلَكَ (halaka, 5×), مُهْلِك (muhlik, 5×), هالِك (hālik, 2×), and مَهْلِك (mahlik, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.