Root

ص-د-ق

ṣdq·s9-d-q

155 occurrences144 verses18 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
صادِقṣādiq59—
مُصَدِّقmuṣaddiq19—
صَدَقَṣadaqa15—
صِدْقṣidq14—
صَدَقَةṣadaqah13—
صَدَّقَṣaddaqa10—
تَصَدَّقَtaṣaddaqa6—
صِدِّيقṣiddīq5—
أَصْدَقaṣdaq2—
تَصْدِيقtaṣdīq2—
مُتَصَدِّقmutaṣaddiq2—
صَدِيقṣadīq2—
صَدُقَةṣaduqah1—
صِدِّيقَةṣiddīqah1—
صادِقَةṣādiqah1—
مُتَصَدِّقَةmutaṣaddiqah1—
مُصَّدِّقmuṣṣaddiq1—
مُصَّدِّقَةmuṣṣaddiqah1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on ص-د-ق

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 Iفَعَلَ75×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • صادِقṣādiq59
    • صَدَقَṣadaqa15
    • صادِقَةṣādiqah1
  2. Form IIفَعَّلَ31×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • مُصَدِّقmuṣaddiq19
    • صَدَّقَṣaddaqa10
    • تَصْدِيقtaṣdīq2
  3. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ11×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَصَدَّقَtaṣaddaqa6
    • مُتَصَدِّقmutaṣaddiq2
    • مُتَصَدِّقَةmutaṣaddiqah1
    • مُصَّدِّقmuṣṣaddiq1
    • مُصَّدِّقَةmuṣṣaddiqah1

Covers 117 of this root’s 155 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 ص-د-ق more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ص-د-ق falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ص-د-ق 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 120 of 604 pages (20%)

Densest in juzʾ 3 (10 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 26 pages — pages 471–496, juzʾ 24–25.

Occurrences · 155 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 ص-د-ق appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ص-د-ق (ṣdq) occurs 155 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 144 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 ص-د-ق occur?

144 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ص-د-ق (ṣdq), out of 155 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ص-د-ق?

ص-د-ق (ṣdq) yields 18 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently صادِق (ṣādiq, 59×), مُصَدِّق (muṣaddiq, 19×), صَدَقَ (ṣadaqa, 15×), صِدْق (ṣidq, 14×), and صَدَقَة (ṣadaqah, 13×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.