Root

ظ-ه-ر

ẓhr·z9-h-r

59 occurrences57 verses10 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
ظَهْرẓahr15—
ظَهَرَẓahara10—
ظاهِرẓāhir8—
أَظْهَرَaẓhara8—
ظاهَرُẓāharu6—
ظَهِيرẓahīr6—
تَظاهَرُtaẓāharu2—
ظاهِرَةẓāhirah2—
ظِهْرِيّẓihriyy1—
ظَهِيرَةẓahīrah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ظ-ه-ر

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 Iفَعَلَ20×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ظَهَرَẓahara10
    • ظاهِرẓāhir8
    • ظاهِرَةẓāhirah2
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ6×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • ظاهَرُẓāharu6
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ8×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَظْهَرَaẓhara8
  4. Form VIتَفَاعَلَ2×

    often mutual, between parties · interpretive

    • تَظاهَرُtaẓāharu2

Covers 36 of this root’s 59 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 ظ-ه-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ظ-ه-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ظ-ه-ر 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 51 of 604 pages (8%)

Densest in juzʾ 28 (8 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 55 pages — pages 76–130, juzʾ 4–7.

Occurrences · 59 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 ظ-ه-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ظ-ه-ر (ẓhr) occurs 59 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 57 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 ظ-ه-ر occur?

57 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ظ-ه-ر (ẓhr), out of 59 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ظ-ه-ر?

ظ-ه-ر (ẓhr) yields 10 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently ظَهْر (ẓahr, 15×), ظَهَرَ (ẓahara, 10×), ظاهِر (ẓāhir, 8×), أَظْهَرَ (aẓhara, 8×), and ظاهَرُ (ẓāharu, 6×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.