Root

ك-ف-ر

kfr·k-f-r

525 occurrences465 verses13 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
كَفَرَkafara289
كافِرkāfir156
كُفْرkufr37
كَفَّرَkaffara14
كَفُورkafūr12
كَفّارkaffār5
كَفّارَةkaffārah4
كُفُورkufūr3
كافِرَةkāfirah1
كُفْرانkufrān1
كَوافِرkawāfir1
كافُورkāfūr1
أَكْفَرَakfara1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ك-ف-ر

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 Iفَعَلَ419×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • كَفَرَkafara289
    • كافِرkāfir129
    • كافِرَةkāfirah1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ14×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • كَفَّرَkaffara14
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَكْفَرَakfara1

Covers 434 of this root’s 525 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 ك-ف-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ك-ف-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ك-ف-ر 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 307 of 604 pages (51%)

Densest in juzʾ 6 (32 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 13 pages — pages 164176, juzʾ 99.

Occurrences · 525 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 ك-ف-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ك-ف-ر (kfr) occurs 525 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 465 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 ك-ف-ر occur?

465 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ك-ف-ر (kfr), out of 525 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ك-ف-ر?

ك-ف-ر (kfr) yields 13 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently كَفَرَ (kafara, 289×), كافِر (kāfir, 156×), كُفْر (kufr, 37×), كَفَّرَ (kaffara, 14×), and كَفُور (kafūr, 12×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.