Root

خ-و-ف

khwf·kh-w-f

124 occurrences112 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
خافَkhāfa83—
خَوْفkhawf26—
خِيفَةkhīfah6—
يُخَوِّفُyukhawwifu4—
خائِفkhāʾif3—
تَخَوُّفtakhawwuf1—
تَخْوِيفtakhwīf1—

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

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 Iفَعَلَ86×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • خافَkhāfa83
    • خائِفkhāʾif3
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ5×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • يُخَوِّفُyukhawwifu4
    • تَخْوِيفtakhwīf1
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ1×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَخَوُّفtakhawwuf1

Covers 92 of this root’s 124 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-و-ف more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times خ-و-ف 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 96 of 604 pages (16%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (9 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 35 pages — pages 320–354, juzʾ 16–18.

Occurrences · 124 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-و-ف appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root خ-و-ف (khwf) occurs 124 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 112 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-و-ف occur?

112 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from خ-و-ف (khwf), out of 124 total occurrences.

What words come from the root خ-و-ف?

خ-و-ف (khwf) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently خافَ (khāfa, 83×), خَوْف (khawf, 26×), خِيفَة (khīfah, 6×), يُخَوِّفُ (yukhawwifu, 4×), and خائِف (khāʾif, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.