Root

و-ك-ل

wkl·w-k-l

70 occurrences61 verses4 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
تَوَكَّلْtawakkal40
وَكِيلwakīl24
مُتَوَكِّلmutawakkil4
وُكِّلَwukkila2

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on و-ك-ل

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 IIفَعَّلَ2×

    often intensive or causative · interpretive

    • وُكِّلَwukkila2
  2. Form Vتَفَعَّلَ44×

    often reflexive of Form II · interpretive

    • تَوَكَّلْtawakkal40
    • مُتَوَكِّلmutawakkil4

Covers 46 of this root’s 70 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 و-ك-ل more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where و-ك-ل falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ك-ل 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 55 of 604 pages (9%)

Densest in juzʾ 13 (9 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 72 pages — pages 291362, juzʾ 1519.

Occurrences · 70 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 و-ك-ل appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ك-ل (wkl) occurs 70 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 61 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 و-ك-ل occur?

61 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ك-ل (wkl), out of 70 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ك-ل?

و-ك-ل (wkl) yields 4 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently تَوَكَّلْ (tawakkal, 40×), وَكِيل (wakīl, 24×), مُتَوَكِّل (mutawakkil, 4×), and وُكِّلَ (wukkila, 2×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.