Root

س-ع-ي

sʿy·s-3-y

30 occurrences28 verses2 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سَعَىsaʿā20—
سَعْيsaʿy10—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-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 25 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 30 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 165 pages — pages 119–283, juzʾ 6–15.

Occurrences · 30 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 س-ع-ي appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-ع-ي (sʿy) occurs 30 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 28 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 س-ع-ي occur?

28 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-ع-ي (sʿy), out of 30 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-ع-ي?

س-ع-ي (sʿy) yields 2 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently سَعَى (saʿā, 20×) and سَعْي (saʿy, 10×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.