Root

خ-ط-ف

khṭf·kh-t9-f

7 occurrences6 verses3 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
خَطِفَkhaṭifa3
يَتَخَطَّفَyatakhaṭṭafa3
خَطْفَةkhaṭfah1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on خ-ط-ف

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 Iفَعَلَ3×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • خَطِفَkhaṭifa3
  2. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ3×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • يَتَخَطَّفَyatakhaṭṭafa3

Covers 6 of this root’s 7 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-ط-ف more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where خ-ط-ف falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times خ-ط-ف 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 6 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 23 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 175 pages — pages 5179, juzʾ 19.

Occurrences · 7 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-ط-ف appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root خ-ط-ف (khṭf) occurs 7 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 6 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-ط-ف occur?

6 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from خ-ط-ف (khṭf), out of 7 total occurrences.

What words come from the root خ-ط-ف?

خ-ط-ف (khṭf) yields 3 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently خَطِفَ (khaṭifa, 3×), يَتَخَطَّفَ (yatakhaṭṭafa, 3×), and خَطْفَة (khaṭfah, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.