Root

و-ق-ع

wqʿ·w-q-3

24 occurrences22 verses7 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
وَقَعَwaqaʿa12
واقِعwāqiʿ6
واقِعَةwāqiʿah2
يُوقِعَyūqiʿa1
مُواقِعُوmūāqiʿū1
وَقْعَتwaqʿat1
مَواقِعmawāqiʿ1

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on و-ق-ع

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 Iفَعَلَ20×

    the base sense, unmarked · interpretive

    • وَقَعَwaqaʿa12
    • واقِعwāqiʿ6
    • واقِعَةwāqiʿah2
  2. Form IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • مُواقِعُوmūāqiʿū1
  3. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • يُوقِعَyūqiʿa1

Covers 22 of this root’s 24 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-ق-ع more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

Word path · where و-ق-ع falls in the muṣḥaf

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ق-ع 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 20 of 604 pages (3%)

Densest in juzʾ 27 (5 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 93 pages — pages 193, juzʾ 15.

Occurrences · 24 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-ق-ع appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ق-ع (wqʿ) occurs 24 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 22 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-ق-ع occur?

22 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ق-ع (wqʿ), out of 24 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ق-ع?

و-ق-ع (wqʿ) yields 7 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently وَقَعَ (waqaʿa, 12×), واقِع (wāqiʿ, 6×), واقِعَة (wāqiʿah, 2×), يُوقِعَ (yūqiʿa, 1×), and مُواقِعُو (mūāqiʿū, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.