Root

ش-ي-خ

shykh·sh-y-kh

4 occurrences4 verses1 form

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
شَيْخshaykh4—

Neighbourhood · roots it keeps company with

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

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where ش-ي-خ falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times ش-ي-خ 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 4 of 604 pages (1%)

Densest in juzʾ 12 (1 occurrence). The longest stretch without it runs 229 pages — pages 1–229, juzʾ 1–12.

Occurrences · 4 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 ش-ي-خ appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root ش-ي-خ (shykh) occurs 4 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 4 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 ش-ي-خ occur?

4 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from ش-ي-خ (shykh), out of 4 total occurrences.

What words come from the root ش-ي-خ?

ش-ي-خ (shykh) yields 1 distinct derived form in the Qurʾān, most frequently شَيْخ (shaykh, 4×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.