Root

ل-ه-و

lhw·l-h-w

16 occurrences15 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
لَهْوlahw10
أَلْهَىalhā4
لاهِيَةlāhīah1
تَلَهَّىtalahhā1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ل-ه-و

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 Iفَعَلَ2×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • لاهِيَةlāhīah1
    • تَلَهَّىtalahhā1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ4×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • أَلْهَىalhā4

Covers 6 of this root’s 16 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 ل-ه-و more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ل-ه-و falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ل-ه-و 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 15 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 28 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 130 pages — pages 1130, juzʾ 17.

Occurrences · 16 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 ل-ه-و appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ل-ه-و (lhw) occurs 16 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 15 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 ل-ه-و occur?

15 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ل-ه-و (lhw), out of 16 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ل-ه-و?

ل-ه-و (lhw) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently لَهْو (lahw, 10×), أَلْهَى (alhā, 4×), لاهِيَة (lāhīah, 1×), and تَلَهَّى (talahhā, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.