Root

ر-ع-ي

rʿy·r-3-y

10 occurrences9 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
راعِrāʿi2
رَعَraʿa2
راعيrāʿy2
مَرْعَىmarʿā2
رِعاءriʿā1
رِعايَتriʿāyat1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ر-ع-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 Iفَعَلَ5×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • رَعَraʿa2
    • راعيrāʿy2
    • رِعايَتriʿāyat1
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ3×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • راعِrāʿi2
    • رِعاءriʿā1

Covers 8 of this root’s 10 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 ر-ع-ي more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ر-ع-ي falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-ع-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 9 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 27 (2 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 228 pages — pages 87314, juzʾ 516.

Occurrences · 10 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-ع-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-ع-ي (rʿy) occurs 10 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 9 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-ع-ي occur?

9 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-ع-ي (rʿy), out of 10 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-ع-ي?

ر-ع-ي (rʿy) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently راعِ (rāʿi, 2×), رَعَ (raʿa, 2×), راعي (rāʿy, 2×), مَرْعَى (marʿā, 2×), and رِعاء (riʿā, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.