Root

غ-ف-ر

ghfr·gh-f-r

234 occurrences202 verses9 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
غَفُورghafūr91
غَفَرَghafara65
اسْتَغْفَرَāstaghfara40
مَغْفِرَةmaghfirah28
غَفّارghaffār5
غافِرghāfir2
غُفْرانghufrān1
مُسْتَغْفِرmustaghfir1
اسْتِغْفارāstighfār1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on غ-ف-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 Iفَعَلَ67×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • غَفَرَghafara65
    • غافِرghāfir2
  2. Form Xاِسْتَفْعَلَ42×

    often seeking or deeming · interpretive

    • اسْتَغْفَرَāstaghfara40
    • مُسْتَغْفِرmustaghfir1
    • اسْتِغْفارāstighfār1

Covers 109 of this root’s 234 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 غ-ف-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where غ-ف-ر falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times غ-ف-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 160 of 604 pages (26%)

Densest in juzʾ 5 (18 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 30 pages — pages 388417, juzʾ 2021.

Occurrences · 234 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 غ-ف-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root غ-ف-ر (ghfr) occurs 234 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 202 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 غ-ف-ر occur?

202 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from غ-ف-ر (ghfr), out of 234 total occurrences.

What words come from the root غ-ف-ر?

غ-ف-ر (ghfr) yields 9 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently غَفُور (ghafūr, 91×), غَفَرَ (ghafara, 65×), اسْتَغْفَرَ (āstaghfara, 40×), مَغْفِرَة (maghfirah, 28×), and غَفّار (ghaffār, 5×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.