Root

س-و-ع

swʿ·s-w-3

49 occurrences44 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
ساعَةsāʿah48—
سُواعsūāʿ1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where س-و-ع falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-و-ع 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 38 of 604 pages (6%)

Densest in juzʾ 25 (10 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 130 pages — pages 1–130, juzʾ 1–7.

Occurrences · 49 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-و-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-و-ع (swʿ) occurs 49 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 44 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-و-ع occur?

44 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-و-ع (swʿ), out of 49 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-و-ع?

س-و-ع (swʿ) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently ساعَة (sāʿah, 48×) and سُواع (sūāʿ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.