Root

ه-ز-أ

hz·h-z-2

34 occurrences32 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
اسْتُهْزِئَāstuhziʾa21
هُزُوhuzū11
مُسْتَهْزِءmustahzi2

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ه-ز-أ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ه-ز-أ 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 28 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 1 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 99 pages — pages 506604, juzʾ 2630.

Occurrences · 34 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-ز-أ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ه-ز-أ (hz) occurs 34 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 32 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-ز-أ occur?

32 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ه-ز-أ (hz), out of 34 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ه-ز-أ?

ه-ز-أ (hz) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently اسْتُهْزِئَ (āstuhziʾa, 21×), هُزُو (huzū, 11×), and مُسْتَهْزِء (mustahzi, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.