Root

خ-ي-ر

khyr·kh-y-r

196 occurrences178 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
خَيْرkhayr178—
خَيْرَةkhayrah10—
اخْتارَākhtāra4—
خِيَرَةkhīarah2—
يَتَخَيَّرُyatakhayyaru2—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on خ-ي-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 Vتَفَعَّلَ2×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • يَتَخَيَّرُyatakhayyaru2
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ4×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اخْتارَākhtāra4

Covers 6 of this root’s 196 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-ي-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times خ-ي-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 147 of 604 pages (24%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (14 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 23 pages — pages 458–480, juzʾ 23–24.

Occurrences · 196 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-ي-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root خ-ي-ر (khyr) occurs 196 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 178 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-ي-ر occur?

178 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from خ-ي-ر (khyr), out of 196 total occurrences.

What words come from the root خ-ي-ر?

خ-ي-ر (khyr) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently خَيْر (khayr, 178×), خَيْرَة (khayrah, 10×), اخْتارَ (ākhtāra, 4×), خِيَرَة (khīarah, 2×), and يَتَخَيَّرُ (yatakhayyaru, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.