Root

ص-ف-ف

ṣff·s9-f-f

14 occurrences12 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
صَفّṣaff7—
صافَّةṣāffah3—
مَصْفُوفَةmaṣfūfah2—
صَوافّṣawāff1—
صافّṣāff1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ص-ف-ف falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-ف-ف 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 12 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 30 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 298 pages — pages 1–298, juzʾ 1–15.

Occurrences · 14 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 ص-ف-ف appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-ف-ف (ṣff) occurs 14 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 12 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 ص-ف-ف occur?

12 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-ف-ف (ṣff), out of 14 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-ف-ف?

ص-ف-ف (ṣff) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently صَفّ (ṣaff, 7×), صافَّة (ṣāffah, 3×), مَصْفُوفَة (maṣfūfah, 2×), صَوافّ (ṣawāff, 1×), and صافّ (ṣāff, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.