Root

ق-د-س

qds·q-d-s

10 occurrences10 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
قُدُسqudus4
مُقَدَّسmuqaddas2
قُدُّوسquddūs2
نُقَدِّسُnuqaddisu1
مُقَدَّسَةmuqaddasah1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ق-د-س more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-د-س 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 10 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 1 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 235 pages — pages 313547, juzʾ 1628.

Occurrences · 10 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-س appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-د-س (qds) occurs 10 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 10 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-س occur?

10 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-د-س (qds), out of 10 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-د-س?

ق-د-س (qds) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently قُدُس (qudus, 4×), مُقَدَّس (muqaddas, 2×), قُدُّوس (quddūs, 2×), نُقَدِّسُ (nuqaddisu, 1×), and مُقَدَّسَة (muqaddasah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.