Root

ق-د-ر

qdr·q-d-r

132 occurrences121 verses11 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
قَدِيرqadīr45—
قَدَرَqadara25—
قَدَّرَqaddara16—
قادِرqādir14—
قَدَرqadar11—
قَدْرqadr7—
تَقْدِيرtaqdīr5—
مُقْتَدِرmuqtadir4—
مِقْدارmiqdār3—
مَقْدُورmaqdūr1—
قُدُورqudūr1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-د-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 Iفَعَلَ40×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • قَدَرَqadara25
    • قادِرqādir14
    • مَقْدُورmaqdūr1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ21×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • قَدَّرَqaddara16
    • تَقْدِيرtaqdīr5
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ4×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • مُقْتَدِرmuqtadir4

Covers 65 of this root’s 132 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-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-د-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 105 of 604 pages (17%)

Densest in juzʾ 29 (15 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 41 pages — pages 141–181, juzʾ 7–9.

Occurrences · 132 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-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-د-ر (qdr) occurs 132 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 121 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-ر occur?

121 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-د-ر (qdr), out of 132 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-د-ر?

ق-د-ر (qdr) yields 11 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently قَدِير (qadīr, 45×), قَدَرَ (qadara, 25×), قَدَّرَ (qaddara, 16×), قادِر (qādir, 14×), and قَدَر (qadar, 11×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.