Root

ه-د-ي

hdy·h-d-y

316 occurrences268 verses11 forms

Core sense · interpretive

to guide (hudā, hidāya).

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
هَدَىhadā144—
هُدًىhudanā85—
اهْتَدَىāhtadā40—
مُهْتَديmuhtady17—
هَدْيhady7—
أَهْدَىahdā7—
هادhād7—
هادِيhādī3—
مُهْتَدmuhtad3—
هَدِيَّةhadiyyah2—
مُهْتَدِيmuhtadī1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ه-د-ي

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 Iفَعَلَ154×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • هَدَىhadā144
    • هادhād7
    • هادِيhādī3
  2. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ61×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اهْتَدَىāhtadā40
    • مُهْتَديmuhtady17
    • مُهْتَدmuhtad3
    • مُهْتَدِيmuhtadī1

Covers 215 of this root’s 316 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 ه-د-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ه-د-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 214 of 604 pages (35%)

Densest in juzʾ 7 (23 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 19 pages — pages 222–240, juzʾ 12–12.

Occurrences · 316 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 ه-د-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ه-د-ي (hdy) occurs 316 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 268 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 ه-د-ي occur?

268 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ه-د-ي (hdy), out of 316 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ه-د-ي?

ه-د-ي (hdy) yields 11 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently هَدَى (hadā, 144×), هُدًى (hudanā, 85×), اهْتَدَى (āhtadā, 40×), مُهْتَدي (muhtady, 17×), and هَدْي (hady, 7×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.

What does the root ه-د-ي mean?

The core sense of ه-د-ي (hdy) is to guide (hudā, hidāya). This is an interpretive gloss, not a computed result: a root's range of meaning is a lexicographical judgement, and the sense a particular verse carries depends on its context and on the tafsīr tradition.