Root

ر-أ-ف

rʾf·r-2-f

13 occurrences13 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
رَءُوفraʾūf11—
رَأْفَةraʾfah2—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

Nearby roots share verses with ر-أ-ف more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-أ-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 13 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 2 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 186 pages — pages 352–537, juzʾ 18–27.

Occurrences · 13 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 ر-أ-ف appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-أ-ف (rʾf) occurs 13 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 13 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 ر-أ-ف occur?

13 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-أ-ف (rʾf), out of 13 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-أ-ف?

ر-أ-ف (rʾf) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently رَءُوف (raʾūf, 11×) and رَأْفَة (raʾfah, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.