Root

س-ح-ر

sḥr·s-7-r

63 occurrences59 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
سِحْرsiḥr28—
ساحِرsāḥir22—
مَسْحُورmasḥūr4—
سَحَرsaḥar3—
سَحَرُsaḥaru3—
مُسَحَّرmusaḥḥar2—
سَحّارsaḥḥār1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on س-ح-ر

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 Iفَعَلَ29×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • ساحِرsāḥir22
    • مَسْحُورmasḥūr4
    • سَحَرُsaḥaru3
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مُسَحَّرmusaḥḥar2

Covers 31 of this root’s 63 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 س-ح-ر more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times س-ح-ر 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 40 of 604 pages (7%)

Densest in juzʾ 19 (11 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 73 pages — pages 53–125, juzʾ 3–7.

Occurrences · 63 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-ح-ر appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root س-ح-ر (sḥr) occurs 63 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 59 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-ح-ر occur?

59 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from س-ح-ر (sḥr), out of 63 total occurrences.

What words come from the root س-ح-ر?

س-ح-ر (sḥr) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently سِحْر (siḥr, 28×), ساحِر (sāḥir, 22×), مَسْحُور (masḥūr, 4×), سَحَر (saḥar, 3×), and سَحَرُ (saḥaru, 3×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.