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How many times is it mentioned in the Qur’an? 53 words, counted from the Arabic

Counts you find online often disagree because they count different things. Each number here is counted word by word from the Arabic, and every page lists the exact words counted and every verse.

Allah and the unseen

Allah 2,699
Jannah 147
Jahannam 77
Fire (nār) 145
Angels (malak) 88
Jibril 3
Shaytan 88
Iblis 11

Faith and worship

Qur’an 70
Islam 8
Iman 45
Salah 83
Zakat 32
Fasting 10
Ramadan 1
Hajj 11
Dua 22
Tawbah 7
Taqwa 17
Mercy 114
Dunya 115
Heart 132

People

Muhammad ﷺ 4
Isa 25
Maryam 34
Musa 136
Ibrahim 69
Nuh 43
Yusuf 27
Adam 25
Pharaoh 74

Places

Makkah 2
Kaaba 2

Nature

Water 63
Sun 33
Moon 27
Night 84
Sky 310
Earth 461

Animals

Bee 1
Ant 2
Spider 2
Dog 5
Cow 9
Camel 9
Elephant 1

Food and plants

Date palm 13
Grapes 11
Olive 5
Pomegranate 3
Fig 1
Honey 1
Milk 2

How we count

Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources. For any Arabic root, see Qur’an root words.

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