Root

ع-ه-د

ʿhd·3-h-d

46 occurrences36 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
عَهْدʿahd29—
عاهَدَʿāhada11—
عَهِدَʿahida6—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ع-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 Iفَعَلَ6×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • عَهِدَʿahida6
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ11×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • عاهَدَʿāhada11

Covers 17 of this root’s 46 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 ع-ه-د more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ع-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 30 of 604 pages (5%)

Densest in juzʾ 1 (9 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 76 pages — pages 343–418, juzʾ 18–21.

Occurrences · 46 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 ع-ه-د appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ع-ه-د (ʿhd) occurs 46 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 36 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 ع-ه-د occur?

36 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ع-ه-د (ʿhd), out of 46 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ع-ه-د?

ع-ه-د (ʿhd) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently عَهْد (ʿahd, 29×), عاهَدَ (ʿāhada, 11×), and عَهِدَ (ʿahida, 6×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.