Root

و-ع-د

wʿd·w-3-d

151 occurrences130 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
وَعَدَwaʿada70—
وَعْدwaʿd49—
مَوْعِدmawʿid12—
مِيعادmīʿād6—
وَعِيدwaʿīd6—
واعَدْwāʿad4—
تُوعِدُtūʿidu1—
تَواعَدtawāʿad1—
مَوْعِدَةmawʿidah1—
مَوْعُودmawʿūd1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on و-ع-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 Iفَعَلَ71×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • وَعَدَwaʿada70
    • مَوْعُودmawʿūd1
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ4×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • واعَدْwāʿad4
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • تُوعِدُtūʿidu1
  4. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ1×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • تَواعَدtawāʿad1

Covers 77 of this root’s 151 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 و-ع-د more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ع-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 26 (16 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 36 pages — pages 109–144, juzʾ 6–8.

Occurrences · 151 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 و-ع-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ع-د (wʿd) occurs 151 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 130 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 و-ع-د occur?

130 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ع-د (wʿd), out of 151 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ع-د?

و-ع-د (wʿd) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently وَعَدَ (waʿada, 70×), وَعْد (waʿd, 49×), مَوْعِد (mawʿid, 12×), مِيعاد (mīʿād, 6×), and وَعِيد (waʿīd, 6×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.