ح ق ق (h-q-q): Every Word From This Root in the Quran

Quran Root Words > Root h-q-q

The Arabic root ح ق ق (h-q-q) occurs 287 times in the Quran, in 7 different words, and is number 30 of the Quran's 1,642 roots by frequency. The most frequent word is حَقّ (ḥaqq), 247 times, followed by حَقَّ (ḥaqqa), 20 times.

What the root h-q-q means

The Quranic Arabic Corpus glosses the root's form I verb حَقَّ (ḥaqqa) as "to justify, to prove true". Its other verbs are glossed there as follows: يُحِقَّ (yuḥiqqa), form IV, "to justify, to establish" and ٱسْتَحَقَّ (istaḥaqqa), form X, "to be guilty, to have right". In the MASAQ word-by-word glosses, حَقّ (ḥaqq) is most often rendered "true".

The second and third letters of h-q-q are the same letter, ق. In many words the two are written as one letter with a shadda, the mark that doubles a consonant, as in حَقّ (ḥaqq).

Every word from the root h-q-q in the Quran

The Quran builds 7 different words on h-q-q. The table lists them from most to least frequent, with the spelling the corpus gives each one, its word type, its meaning and its number of occurrences. Verbs account for 26 of the 287 occurrences, in forms I, IV and X; the rest are nouns, adjectives and participles.

Meanings in quotation marks are MASAQ word-by-word glosses, the others the corpus dictionary's, and the word types follow the dictionary. Every count on this page is a lemma count from the Quranic Arabic Corpus, version 0.4. We compared each of these 7 counts, and the root total of 287, with the corpus's own dictionary entry for h-q-q, and all of them match.

The root h-q-q in the verses of the Quran

Words from h-q-q appear in 263 verses spread over 59 of the Quran's 114 suras. Sura 2 has the most of them, 21 verses. Below are the shortest verses in which the root's most frequent words occur, with the word marked. The text is the Uthmani text of Tanzil, and each reference opens the verse on quran.com with translations.

حَقّ (ḥaqq), 247 times

وَإِنَّهُۥ لَحَقُّ ٱلْيَقِينِ
Quran 69:51; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "surely (the) truth"

قَالَ فَٱلْحَقُّ وَٱلْحَقَّ أَقُولُ
Quran 38:84; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "then (it is) the truth"

إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَهُوَ حَقُّ ٱلْيَقِينِ
Quran 56:95; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "(is the) truth"

حَقَّ (ḥaqqa), 20 times

وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ
Quran 84:2; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "and was obligated"

إِن كُلٌّ إِلَّا كَذَّبَ ٱلرُّسُلَ فَحَقَّ عِقَابِ
Quran 38:14; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "so (was) just"

أَحَقّ (aḥaqq), 10 times

يَحْلِفُونَ بِٱللَّهِ لَكُمْ لِيُرْضُوكُمْ وَٱللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُۥٓ أَحَقُّ أَن يُرْضُوهُ إِن كَانُوا۟ مُؤْمِنِينَ
Quran 9:62; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "(have) more right"

لَا تَقُمْ فِيهِ أَبَدًا ۚ لَّمَسْجِدٌ أُسِّسَ عَلَى ٱلتَّقْوَىٰ مِنْ أَوَّلِ يَوْمٍ أَحَقُّ أَن تَقُومَ فِيهِ ۚ فِيهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ أَن يَتَطَهَّرُوا۟ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ يُحِبُّ ٱلْمُطَّهِّرِينَ
Quran 9:108; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "(is) more worthy"

Names of God from the root h-q-q

One of the 99 names of God in the enumeration of at-Tirmidhi is built on h-q-q. Our table of the 99 names of Allah with their roots lists all of them, each with an everyday word from the same root.

• 51. الْحَقُّ Al-Haqq, The Truth

Learning the words of h-q-q

حَقّ (ḥaqq), no. 47 with 247, is on our list of the 100 most common Quran words, which counts it the same way. Its verbs follow the patterns of the Arabic verb forms (forms I, IV and X), and our Arabic verb conjugator conjugates any root in any form, so you can see how حَقَّ changes for person and tense. The root h-q-q is one of the 1,642 roots you can search in our Quran root word explorer; for the rest of the language, see our Arabic learning resources by level.

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