Root

أ-خ-ذ

khdh·2-kh-dh

273 occurrences244 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
أَخَذَakhadha127
اتَّخَذَāttakhadha124
يُؤاخِذُyuʾākhidhu9
أَخْذakhdh6
آخِذākhidh3
مُتَّخِذmuttakhidh3
اتِّخاذāttikhādh1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on أ-خ-ذ

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 Iفَعَلَ136×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • أَخَذَakhadha127
    • أَخْذakhdh6
    • آخِذākhidh3
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ9×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • يُؤاخِذُyuʾākhidhu9
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ128×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اتَّخَذَāttakhadha124
    • مُتَّخِذmuttakhidh3
    • اتِّخاذāttikhādh1

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with أ-خ-ذ more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where أ-خ-ذ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times أ-خ-ذ 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 181 of 604 pages (30%)

Densest in juzʾ 9 (23 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 20 pages — pages 585604, juzʾ 3030.

Occurrences · 273 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 أ-خ-ذ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root أ-خ-ذ (khdh) occurs 273 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 244 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 أ-خ-ذ occur?

244 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from أ-خ-ذ (khdh), out of 273 total occurrences.

What words come from the root أ-خ-ذ?

أ-خ-ذ (khdh) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently أَخَذَ (akhadha, 127×), اتَّخَذَ (āttakhadha, 124×), يُؤاخِذُ (yuʾākhidhu, 9×), أَخْذ (akhdh, 6×), and آخِذ (ākhidh, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.