Root

و-ث-ق

wthq·w-th-q

34 occurrences29 verses6 forms

Derived forms

FormTranslitCountMeaning
مِيثاقmīthāq25—
مَوْثِقmawthiq3—
وُثْقَىwuthqā2—
وَثاقwathāq2—
واثَقَwāthaqa1—
يُوثِقُyūthiqu1—

Derived forms tree · the patterns built on و-ث-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 IIIفَاعَلَ1×

    often directed at someone — reciprocal · interpretive

    • واثَقَwāthaqa1
  2. Form IVأَفْعَلَ1×

    often causative — to make it happen · interpretive

    • يُوثِقُyūthiqu1

Covers 2 of this root’s 34 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-ث-ق more than chance would predict (statistical). See the whole atlas →

Mapping the neighbourhood…

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

Each cell is one page of the 604-page Madanī muṣḥaf, lit in proportion to how many times و-ث-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 27 of 604 pages (4%)

Densest in juzʾ 6 (9 occurrences). The longest stretch without it runs 160 pages — pages 253–412, juzʾ 13–21.

Occurrences · 34 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-ث-ق appear in the Quran?

The Arabic root و-ث-ق (wthq) occurs 34 times in the Qurʾān, spread across 29 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-ث-ق occur?

29 verses of the Qurʾān contain at least one word derived from و-ث-ق (wthq), out of 34 total occurrences.

What words come from the root و-ث-ق?

و-ث-ق (wthq) yields 6 distinct derived forms in the Qurʾān, most frequently مِيثاق (mīthāq, 25×), مَوْثِق (mawthiq, 3×), وُثْقَى (wuthqā, 2×), وَثاق (wathāq, 2×), and واثَقَ (wāthaqa, 1×). Each form links to every verse in which it appears.