Root

ر-ح-م

rḥm·r-7-m

339 occurrences313 verses9 forms

Core sense · interpretive

mercy, compassion, womb-like tenderness (raḥima).

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
رَحِيمraḥīm116—
رَحْمَةraḥmah114—
رَحْمٰنraḥmān57—
رَحِمَraḥima28—
أَرْحامarḥām12—
راحِمrāḥim6—
أَرْحَمarḥam4—
رُحْمruḥm1—
مَرْحَمَةmarḥamah1—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ر-ح-م falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-ح-م 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 238 of 604 pages (39%)

Densest in juzʾ 16 (27 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 12 pages — pages 37–48, juzʾ 2–3.

Occurrences · 339 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-ح-م appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-ح-م (rḥm) occurs 339 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 313 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-ح-م occur?

313 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-ح-م (rḥm), out of 339 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-ح-م?

ر-ح-م (rḥm) yields 9 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently رَحِيم (raḥīm, 116×), رَحْمَة (raḥmah, 114×), رَحْمٰن (raḥmān, 57×), رَحِمَ (raḥima, 28×), and أَرْحام (arḥām, 12×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.

What does the root ر-ح-م mean?

The core sense of ر-ح-م (rḥm) is mercy, compassion, womb-like tenderness (raḥima). This is an interpretive gloss, not a computed result: a root's range of meaning is a lexicographical judgement, and the sense a particular verse carries depends on its context and on the tafsīr tradition.