Root

خ-ل-ق

khlq·kh-l-q

261 occurrences218 verses8 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
خَلَقَkhalaqa184—
خَلْقkhalq52—
خالِقkhāliq12—
خَلاقkhalāq6—
خَلّاقkhallāq2—
مُخَلَّقَةmukhallaqah2—
خُلُقkhuluq2—
اخْتِلاقākhtilāq1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on خ-ل-ق

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 Iفَعَلَ196×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • خَلَقَkhalaqa184
    • خالِقkhāliq12
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مُخَلَّقَةmukhallaqah2
  3. Form VIIIاِفْتَعَلَ1×

    often reflexive — done to or for oneself · interpretive

    • اخْتِلاقākhtilāq1

Covers 199 of this root’s 261 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 خ-ل-ق more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where خ-ل-ق falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times خ-ل-ق 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 162 of 604 pages (27%)

Densest in juzʾ 23 (28 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 19 pages — pages 37–55, juzʾ 2–3.

Occurrences · 261 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 خ-ل-ق appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root خ-ل-ق (khlq) occurs 261 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 218 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 خ-ل-ق occur?

218 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from خ-ل-ق (khlq), out of 261 total occurrences.

What words come from the root خ-ل-ق?

خ-ل-ق (khlq) yields 8 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently خَلَقَ (khalaqa, 184×), خَلْق (khalq, 52×), خالِق (khāliq, 12×), خَلاق (khalāq, 6×), and خَلّاق (khallāq, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.