Root

ش-ف-ع

shfʿ·sh-f-3

31 occurrences26 verses5 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
شَفاعَةshafāʿah13—
شَفِيعshafīʿ10—
يَشْفَعُyashfaʿu5—
شافِعshāfiʿ2—
شَفْعshafʿ1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ش-ف-ع falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ش-ف-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 24 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (4 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 100 pages — pages 211–310, juzʾ 11–16.

Occurrences · 31 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 ش-ف-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ش-ف-ع (shfʿ) occurs 31 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 26 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 ش-ف-ع occur?

26 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ش-ف-ع (shfʿ), out of 31 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ش-ف-ع?

ش-ف-ع (shfʿ) yields 5 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently شَفاعَة (shafāʿah, 13×), شَفِيع (shafīʿ, 10×), يَشْفَعُ (yashfaʿu, 5×), شافِع (shāfiʿ, 2×), and شَفْع (shafʿ, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.