Root

س-ك-ن

skn·s-k-n

69 occurrences66 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مِسْكِينmiskīn23
سَكَنَsakana15
مَسْكَنmaskan12
سَكِينَةsakīnah6
أَسْكَنaskan5
سَكَنsakan3
مَسْكَنَةmaskanah2
سِكِّينsikkīn1
مَسْكُونَةmaskūnah1
ساكِنsākin1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on س-ك-ن

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 Iفَعَلَ17×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • سَكَنَsakana15
    • مَسْكُونَةmaskūnah1
    • ساكِنsākin1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ5×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَسْكَنaskan5

Covers 22 of this root’s 69 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 س-ك-ن more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where س-ك-ن falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-ك-ن 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 64 of 604 pages (11%)

Densest in juzʾ 10 (6 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 43 pages — pages 431473, juzʾ 2224.

Occurrences · 69 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-ك-ن appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-ك-ن (skn) occurs 69 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 66 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-ك-ن occur?

66 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-ك-ن (skn), out of 69 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-ك-ن?

س-ك-ن (skn) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مِسْكِين (miskīn, 23×), سَكَنَ (sakana, 15×), مَسْكَن (maskan, 12×), سَكِينَة (sakīnah, 6×), and أَسْكَن (askan, 5×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.