Root

س-ف-ل

sfl·s-f-l

10 occurrences9 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَسْفَلasfal6
سافِلsāfil3
سُفْلَىsuflā1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-ف-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 9 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 10 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 152 pages — pages 267418, juzʾ 1421.

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 س-ف-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-ف-ل (sfl) occurs 10 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 9 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-ل occur?

9 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-ف-ل (sfl), out of 10 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-ف-ل?

س-ف-ل (sfl) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَسْفَل (asfal, 6×), سافِل (sāfil, 3×), and سُفْلَى (suflā, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.