Root

و-ح-ي

wḥy·w-7-y

78 occurrences70 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَوْحَىawḥā72—
وَحْىwaḥā6—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where و-ح-ي falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ح-ي 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 66 of 604 pages (11%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (8 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 54 pages — pages 1–54, juzʾ 1–3.

Occurrences · 78 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-ح-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ح-ي (wḥy) occurs 78 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 70 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-ح-ي occur?

70 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ح-ي (wḥy), out of 78 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ح-ي?

و-ح-ي (wḥy) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَوْحَى (awḥā, 72×) and وَحْى (waḥā, 6×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.