Root

س-ف-ح

sfḥ·s-f-7

4 occurrences4 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مُسافِحmusāfiḥ2
مُسافِحَةmusāfiḥah1
مَسْفُوحmasfūḥ1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on س-ف-ح

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 Iفَعَلَ1×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • مَسْفُوحmasfūḥ1
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ3×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • مُسافِحmusāfiḥ2
    • مُسافِحَةmusāfiḥah1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where س-ف-ح falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-ف-ح 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 3 of 604 pages (0%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 457 pages — pages 148604, juzʾ 830.

Occurrences · 4 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 س-ف-ح appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-ف-ح (sfḥ) occurs 4 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 4 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 س-ف-ح occur?

4 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-ف-ح (sfḥ), out of 4 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-ف-ح?

س-ف-ح (sfḥ) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مُسافِح (musāfiḥ, 2×), مُسافِحَة (musāfiḥah, 1×), and مَسْفُوح (masfūḥ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.