Root

خ-ل-و

khlw·kh-l-w

28 occurrences28 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
خَلاkhalā25
خَلُّkhallu1
خالِيَةkhālīah1
تَخَلَّتْtakhallat1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on خ-ل-و

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 Iفَعَلَ26×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • خَلاkhalā25
    • خالِيَةkhālīah1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ1×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • خَلُّkhallu1
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَخَلَّتْtakhallat1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with خ-ل-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where خ-ل-و falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times خ-ل-و 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 27 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 1 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 91 pages — pages 263353, juzʾ 1418.

Occurrences · 28 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-ل-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root خ-ل-و (khlw) occurs 28 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 28 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-ل-و occur?

28 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from خ-ل-و (khlw), out of 28 total occurrences.

What words come from the root خ-ل-و?

خ-ل-و (khlw) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently خَلا (khalā, 25×), خَلُّ (khallu, 1×), خالِيَة (khālīah, 1×), and تَخَلَّتْ (takhallat, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.