Root

خ-ط-أ

khṭ·kh-t9-2

22 occurrences20 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
خَطِيئَةkhaṭīʾah10
خاطِئkhāṭi5
أَخْطَأْakhṭa2
خَطَأkhaṭa2
خاطِئَةkhāṭiʾah2
خِطْءkhiṭ1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on خ-ط-أ

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

    • خاطِئkhāṭi5
    • خاطِئَةkhāṭiʾah2
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ2×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَخْطَأْakhṭa2

Covers 9 of this root’s 22 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-ط-أ more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where خ-ط-أ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times خ-ط-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 20 of 604 pages (3%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 148 pages — pages 419566, juzʾ 2129.

Occurrences · 22 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-ط-أ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root خ-ط-أ (khṭ) occurs 22 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 20 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-ط-أ occur?

20 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from خ-ط-أ (khṭ), out of 22 total occurrences.

What words come from the root خ-ط-أ?

خ-ط-أ (khṭ) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently خَطِيئَة (khaṭīʾah, 10×), خاطِئ (khāṭi, 5×), أَخْطَأْ (akhṭa, 2×), خَطَأ (khaṭa, 2×), and خاطِئَة (khāṭiʾah, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.