Root

خ-ف-ي

khfy·kh-f-y

34 occurrences31 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أُخْفِيَukhfīa18—
يَخْفَىyakhfā6—
يَسْتَخْفُyastakhfu3—
خُفْيَةkhufyah2—
خَفِيّkhafiyy2—
مُسْتَخْفmustakhf1—
أَخْفَىakhfā1—
خافِيَةkhāfīah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on خ-ف-ي

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

    • يَخْفَىyakhfā6
    • خافِيَةkhāfīah1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ18×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أُخْفِيَukhfīa18
  3. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ4×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • يَسْتَخْفُyastakhfu3
    • مُسْتَخْفmustakhf1

Covers 29 of this root’s 34 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 خ-ف-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where خ-ف-ي falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times خ-ف-ي 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 31 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 63 pages — pages 158–220, juzʾ 8–11.

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 خ-ف-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root خ-ف-ي (khfy) occurs 34 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 31 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 خ-ف-ي occur?

31 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from خ-ف-ي (khfy), out of 34 total occurrences.

What words come from the root خ-ف-ي?

خ-ف-ي (khfy) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أُخْفِيَ (ukhfīa, 18×), يَخْفَى (yakhfā, 6×), يَسْتَخْفُ (yastakhfu, 3×), خُفْيَة (khufyah, 2×), and خَفِيّ (khafiyy, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.