Root

ش-ه-د

shhd·sh-h-d

160 occurrences123 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
شَهِيدshahīd56—
شَهِدَshahida44—
شَهادَةshahādah26—
شاهِدshāhid21—
أَشْهَدَashhada7—
مَشْهُودmashhūd3—
اسْتَشْهِدُāstashhidu2—
مَشْهَدmashhad1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ش-ه-د

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 Iفَعَلَ68×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • شَهِدَshahida44
    • شاهِدshāhid21
    • مَشْهُودmashhūd3
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ7×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَشْهَدَashhada7
  3. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ2×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَشْهِدُāstashhidu2

Covers 77 of this root’s 160 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 ش-ه-د more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ش-ه-د falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ش-ه-د 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 108 of 604 pages (18%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (16 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 20 pages — pages 256–275, juzʾ 13–14.

Occurrences · 160 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-ه-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ش-ه-د (shhd) occurs 160 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 123 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-ه-د occur?

123 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ش-ه-د (shhd), out of 160 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ش-ه-د?

ش-ه-د (shhd) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently شَهِيد (shahīd, 56×), شَهِدَ (shahida, 44×), شَهادَة (shahādah, 26×), شاهِد (shāhid, 21×), and أَشْهَدَ (ashhada, 7×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.