Root

ق-د-م

qdm·q-d-m

48 occurrences48 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
قَدَّمَqaddama27—
قَدَمqadam8—
يَسْتَقْدِمُyastaqdimu4—
قَدِيمqadīm3—
قَدِمْqadim2—
تَقَدَّمَtaqaddama2—
مُسْتَقْدِمmustaqdim1—
أَقْدَمaqdam1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-د-م

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 Iفَعَلَ2×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • قَدِمْqadim2
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ27×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • قَدَّمَqaddama27
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ2×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَقَدَّمَtaqaddama2
  4. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ5×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • يَسْتَقْدِمُyastaqdimu4
    • مُسْتَقْدِمmustaqdim1

Covers 36 of this root’s 48 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 ق-د-م more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ق-د-م falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-د-م 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 46 of 604 pages (8%)

Densest in juzʾ 26 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 32 pages — pages 89–120, juzʾ 5–6.

Occurrences · 48 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 ق-د-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-د-م (qdm) occurs 48 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 48 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 ق-د-م occur?

48 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-د-م (qdm), out of 48 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-د-م?

ق-د-م (qdm) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently قَدَّمَ (qaddama, 27×), قَدَم (qadam, 8×), يَسْتَقْدِمُ (yastaqdimu, 4×), قَدِيم (qadīm, 3×), and قَدِمْ (qadim, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.