Root

ر-ك-ع

rkʿ·r-k-3

13 occurrences10 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
راكِعrākiʿ8—
يَرْكَعُyarkaʿu5—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ر-ك-ع 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 10 of 604 pages (2%)

Densest in juzʾ 1 (3 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 129 pages — pages 206–334, juzʾ 11–17.

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-ك-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ر-ك-ع (rkʿ) occurs 13 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 10 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-ك-ع occur?

10 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ر-ك-ع (rkʿ), out of 13 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ر-ك-ع?

ر-ك-ع (rkʿ) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently راكِع (rākiʿ, 8×) and يَرْكَعُ (yarkaʿu, 5×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.