ك ي ف Root k-y-f in the Qur’an 83 occurrences in 83 verses

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كَيْف 83 times

• 2:28 · Al-Baqarahكَيْفَ HowHow can you disbelieve in Allah when you were lifeless and He brought you to life; then He will cause you to die, then He will bring you [back] to life, and then to Him you will be returned.
• 2:259 · Al-Baqarahكَيْفَ howOr [consider such an example] as the one who passed by a township which had fallen into ruin. He said, "How will Allah bring this to life after its death?" So Allah caused him to die for a hundred years; then He revived him. He said, "How long have you remained?" The man said, "I have remained a day or part of a day." He said, "Rather, you have remained one hundred years. Look at your food and your drink; it has not changed with time. And look at your donkey; and We will make you a sign for the people. And look at the bones [of this donkey] - how We raise them and then We cover them with flesh." And when it became clear to him, he said, "I know that Allah is over all things competent."
• 2:260 · Al-Baqarahكَيْفَ howAnd [mention] when Abraham said, "My Lord, show me how You give life to the dead." [Allah] said, "Have you not believed?" He said, "Yes, but [I ask] only that my heart may be satisfied." [Allah] said, "Take four birds and commit them to yourself. Then [after slaughtering them] put on each hill a portion of them; then call them - they will come [flying] to you in haste. And know that Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise."
• 3:6 · Ali 'Imranكَيْفَ how(ever)It is He who forms you in the wombs however He wills. There is no deity except Him, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.
• 3:25 · Ali 'Imranفَكَيْفَ Then how (will it be)So how will it be when We assemble them for a Day about which there is no doubt? And each soul will be compensated [in full for] what it earned, and they will not be wronged.
• 3:86 · Ali 'Imranكَيْفَ HowHow shall Allah guide a people who disbelieved after their belief and had witnessed that the Messenger is true and clear signs had come to them? And Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people.
• 3:101 · Ali 'Imranوَكَيْفَ And how (could)And how could you disbelieve while to you are being recited the verses of Allah and among you is His Messenger? And whoever holds firmly to Allah has [indeed] been guided to a straight path.
• 3:137 · Ali 'Imranكَيْفَ howSimilar situations [as yours] have passed on before you, so proceed throughout the earth and observe how was the end of those who denied.
• 4:21 · An-Nisaوَكَيْفَ And howAnd how could you take it while you have gone in unto each other and they have taken from you a solemn covenant?
• 4:41 · An-Nisaفَكَيْفَ So how (will it be)So how [will it be] when We bring from every nation a witness and we bring you, [O Muhammad] against these [people] as a witness?
• 4:50 · An-Nisaكَيْفَ howLook how they invent about Allah untruth, and sufficient is that as a manifest sin.
• 4:62 · An-Nisaفَكَيْفَ So howSo how [will it be] when disaster strikes them because of what their hands have put forth and then they come to you swearing by Allah, "We intended nothing but good conduct and accommodation."
• 5:31 · Al-Ma'idahكَيْفَ howThen Allah sent a crow searching in the ground to show him how to hide the disgrace of his brother. He said, "O woe to me! Have I failed to be like this crow and hide the body of my brother?" And he became of the regretful.
• 5:43 · Al-Ma'idahوَكَيْفَ But how canBut how is it that they come to you for judgement while they have the Torah, in which is the judgement of Allah? Then they turn away, [even] after that; but those are not [in fact] believers.
• 5:64 · Al-Ma'idahكَيْفَ howAnd the Jews say, "The hand of Allah is chained." Chained are their hands, and cursed are they for what they say. Rather, both His hands are extended; He spends however He wills. And that which has been revealed to you from your Lord will surely increase many of them in transgression and disbelief. And We have cast among them animosity and hatred until the Day of Resurrection. Every time they kindled the fire of war [against you], Allah extinguished it. And they strive throughout the land [causing] corruption, and Allah does not like corrupters.
• 5:75 · Al-Ma'idahكَيْفَ howThe Messiah, son of Mary, was not but a messenger; [other] messengers have passed on before him. And his mother was a supporter of truth. They both used to eat food. Look how We make clear to them the signs; then look how they are deluded.
• 6:11 · Al-An'amكَيْفَ howSay, "Travel through the land; then observe how was the end of the deniers."
• 6:24 · Al-An'amكَيْفَ howSee how they will lie about themselves. And lost from them will be what they used to invent.
• 6:46 · Al-An'amكَيْفَ howSay, "Have you considered: if Allah should take away your hearing and your sight and set a seal upon your hearts, which deity other than Allah could bring them [back] to you?" Look how we diversify the verses; then they [still] turn away.
• 6:65 · Al-An'amكَيْفَ howSay, "He is the [one] Able to send upon you affliction from above you or from beneath your feet or to confuse you [so you become] sects and make you taste the violence of one another." Look how We diversify the signs that they might understand.
• 6:81 · Al-An'amوَكَيْفَ And howAnd how should I fear what you associate while you do not fear that you have associated with Allah that for which He has not sent down to you any authority? So which of the two parties has more right to security, if you should know?
• 7:84 · Al-A'rafكَيْفَ howAnd We rained upon them a rain [of stones]. Then see how was the end of the criminals.
• 7:86 · Al-A'rafكَيْفَ howAnd do not sit on every path, threatening and averting from the way of Allah those who believe in Him, seeking to make it [seem] deviant. And remember when you were few and He increased you. And see how was the end of the corrupters.
• 7:93 · Al-A'rafفَكَيْفَ So how couldAnd he turned away from them and said, "O my people, I had certainly conveyed to you the messages of my Lord and advised you, so how could I grieve for a disbelieving people?"
• 7:103 · Al-A'rafكَيْفَ howThen We sent after them Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his establishment, but they were unjust toward them. So see how was the end of the corrupters.
• 7:129 · Al-A'rafكَيْفَ howThey said, "We have been harmed before you came to us and after you have come to us." He said, "Perhaps your Lord will destroy your enemy and grant you succession in the land and see how you will do."
• 9:7 · At-Tawbahكَيْفَ HowHow can there be for the polytheists a treaty in the sight of Allah and with His Messenger, except for those with whom you made a treaty at al-Masjid al-Haram? So as long as they are upright toward you, be upright toward them. Indeed, Allah loves the righteous [who fear Him].
• 9:8 · At-Tawbahكَيْفَ HowHow [can there be a treaty] while, if they gain dominance over you, they do not observe concerning you any pact of kinship or covenant of protection? They satisfy you with their mouths, but their hearts refuse [compliance], and most of them are defiantly disobedient.
• 10:14 · Yunusكَيْفَ howThen We made you successors in the land after them so that We may observe how you will do.
• 10:35 · Yunusكَيْفَ howSay, "Are there of your 'partners' any who guides to the truth?" Say, "Allah guides to the truth. So is He who guides to the truth more worthy to be followed or he who guides not unless he is guided? Then what is [wrong] with you - how do you judge?"

Also in 53 more places: 10:39, 10:73, 12:109, 13:32, 14:24, 14:45, 16:36, 17:21, 17:48, 18:68, 19:29, 22:44, 25:9, 25:45, 27:14, 27:51, 27:69, 28:40, 29:19, 29:20, 30:9, 30:42, 30:48, 30:50, 34:45, 35:26, 35:44, 37:73, 37:154, 40:5, 40:21, 40:82, 43:25, 47:10, 47:27, 50:6, 54:16, 54:18, 54:21, 54:30, 67:17, 67:18, 68:36, 71:15, 73:17, 74:19, 74:20, 88:17, 88:18, 88:19, 88:20, 89:6, 105:1

How we count

Each Qur’an word whose stem comes from this root counts once. Attached prefixes and pronouns, such as wa- (and) or al- (the), are not counted separately. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources. Verse translation: Saheeh International.