Root

ق-ت-ل

qtl·q-t-l

170 occurrences122 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
قَتَلَqatala83
قاتَلَqātala54
قِتالqitāl13
قَتْلqatl10
اقْتَتَلَāqtatala4
قُتِّلُquttilu4
قَتْلَىqatlā1
تَقْتِيلtaqtīl1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ق-ت-ل

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 Iفَعَلَ93×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • قَتَلَqatala83
    • قَتْلqatl10
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ5×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • قُتِّلُquttilu4
    • تَقْتِيلtaqtīl1
  3. Form IIIفَاعَلَ54×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • قاتَلَqātala54
  4. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ4×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اقْتَتَلَāqtatala4

Covers 156 of this root’s 170 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-ت-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ق-ت-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ق-ت-ل 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 86 of 604 pages (14%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (23 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 48 pages — pages 237284, juzʾ 1215.

Occurrences · 170 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-ت-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ق-ت-ل (qtl) occurs 170 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 122 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-ت-ل occur?

122 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ق-ت-ل (qtl), out of 170 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ق-ت-ل?

ق-ت-ل (qtl) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently قَتَلَ (qatala, 83×), قاتَلَ (qātala, 54×), قِتال (qitāl, 13×), قَتْل (qatl, 10×), and اقْتَتَلَ (āqtatala, 4×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.