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Map of the 114 surahs in mushaf order, from Al-Faatiha on the right to An-Naas on the left. Gold stars mark the 62 surahs where the root ⁨ر ح م⁩ (⁨mercy⁩) appears.

Act IOne word

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The text
6,236 verses · 77,429 words · 1,642 roots
Sources
Books opened at the page, lecture statements at their explanation
Parallel traditions
Genesis, Gilgamesh, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Gospel of Barnabas (medieval)…
Language family
655 cognate rows checked against HALOT
Connections
26,000+ links to source passages
QI, labeled
Always labeled, never counted as a source
Act I of VIOne word

Every study starts with a word you can touch.

Read the Arabic beside its translation. Select وَرَحْمَتِى in ⁨Al-A’raf 156⁩ and Q19 opens what stands behind it: the root, its forms and every verse that shares it.

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Al-A’raf 156سُورَةُ الأَعۡرَافِAl-A'raaf · The Heights · Meccan

۞ وَٱكْتُبْ لَنَا فِى هَٰذِهِ ٱلدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةًۭ وَفِى ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ إِنَّا هُدْنَآ إِلَيْكَ ۚ قَالَ عَذَابِىٓ أُصِيبُ بِهِۦ مَنْ أَشَآءُ ۖ وَسِعَتْ كُلَّ شَىْءٍۢ ۚ فَسَأَكْتُبُهَا لِلَّذِينَ يَتَّقُونَ وَيُؤْتُونَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا يُؤْمِنُونَ

And ordain Thou for us what is good in this world as well as in the life to come: behold, unto Thee have we turned in repentance!" [God] answered: "With My chastisement do I afflict whom I will - but My grace overspreads everything: and so I shall confer it on those who are conscious of Me and spend in charity, and who believe in Our messages-

Translation: Muhammad Asad

Act II of VIIts root

R-Ḥ-M · MERCY

Three letters. 9 forms. One language family.

The word belongs to a root. Q19 shows every form the root takes in the Qur’an, and its relatives across the Semitic family, each with its evidence status.

Word forms · 339 occurrences

The first three forms make up 287 of the 339.

The family · 6 Semitic languages

A longer history behind the letters, with the status on every row.

  • Verified, HALOT
  • Cited comparatively
  • Unverified
  • Contradicted

  • Hebrew

    רָחַםrachamto have compassionVerified · ⁨HALOT #8753⁩

  • Aramaic

    רַחֲמָאrachamāmercy, compassionVerified · ⁨HALOT #8753⁩

  • Akkadian

    rēmurēmumercy, compassionCited comparatively

  • Ugaritic

    rḥmrḥmwomb, mercyCited comparatively

  • Syriac

    ܪܚܡrḥmto love, have mercyUnverified

  • Ge’ez

    ረሐመraḥamato have mercyContradicted · ⁨HALOT⁩Contradicted: the lexicon does not support this match.

Across Q19: 5,594 cognate rows for 1,567 roots. 655 Hebrew and Aramaic rows are checked against HALOT; the rest say exactly what they are.

Act III of VIIts verses

313 verses. 62 surahs. One thread through time.

Every verse that shares the root, set in the approximate order of revelation. This is not every verse about mercy, and a shared root does not mean an identical meaning.

Revelation timeline. One bar per surah, height by length. Gold marks the root; larger means more occurrences.

Timeline of the 114 surahs in the approximate order of revelation. The root ⁨ر ح م⁩ appears in 62 surahs: 207 Meccan verses and 106 Medinan verses.

Early Meccan610 CEMiddle MeccanLate MeccanMedinanHijra 622632 CE
207Meccan verses106Medinan verses

Verses by periodEarly Meccan 3Middle Meccan 60Late Meccan 144Medinan 106

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Periods follow an approximate order of revelation (Egyptian standard). The basmala is counted at ⁨Al-Fatihah 1⁩ and ⁨An-Naml 30⁩ only, as in the corpus.

Act IV of VIHow Q19 knows

Four layers. Never blended.

A count, a source and an interpretation are different things. Here is one verse taken apart, with the label each layer carries everywhere in Q19.

Al-A’raf 156

قَالَ عَذَابِىٓ أُصِيبُ بِهِۦ مَنْ أَشَآءُ ۖ وَرَحْمَتِى وَسِعَتْ كُلَّ شَىْءٍۢ

“…My grace overspreads everything…”

Translation: Muhammad Asad

The evidence trail

  1. 1 · The text

    QAC v0.4

    Loaded unchanged.

    Every word, root and form as the Quranic Arabic Corpus v0.4 publishes them. Where Q19 reads a word differently it adds a “Q19 note” and never changes a count.

    1. prefixوَCONJconjunction
    2. stemرَحْمَتِNnoun · feminine · nominativeRoot ر ح م
    3. suffixىPRONpronoun · 1st person singular
    Word 18 of Al-A’raf 156, split and tagged as the corpus publishes it.

  2. 2 · The index

    Counted, not inferred.

    Root ر ح م

    occurrences
    339
    verses
    313
    surahs
    62

    وَرَحْمَتِى is one of the 114 uses of رَحْمَة.

  3. 3 · The sources

    Quoted, with its location.

    “…I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

    «…وَأَتَرَاءَفُ عَلَى مَنْ أَتَرَاءَفُ، وَأَرْحَمُ مَنْ أَرْحَمُ»

    Exodus 33:19 · JPS 1917 / Arabic Bible (1865), public domain
    ⁨0.72⁩ · from the index

    A link is a parallel to read, not a claim of borrowing.

    Books open at the page; each lecture statement at its explanation.

  4. 4 · QI

    Labeled, every time. It can be wrong.

    QI explanation · checked before it is served

    In the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Moses and his chosen seventy men, Moses petitions God to ordain goodness in this world and the hereafter, acknowledging their repentance. God responds by distinguishing between His chastisement, which He applies as He wills, and His mercy, which encompasses all things.

    Verses it cites

    Share the root ر ح م
    Other verses it cites

    Counts and texts never come from the AI.

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Act V of VIThe traditions

One verse. Three mountains, four texts.

Episode: ⁨the ark comes to rest and the waters recede⁩ · استواء الفُلك وانحسار الماء

وَٱسْتَوَتْ عَلَى ٱلْجُودِىِّ

وَقِيلَ يَٰٓأَرْضُ ٱبْلَعِى مَآءَكِ وَيَٰسَمَآءُ أَقْلِعِى وَغِيضَ ٱلْمَآءُ وَقُضِىَ ٱلْأَمْرُ وَٱسْتَوَتْ عَلَى ٱلْجُودِىِّ ۖ وَقِيلَ بُعْدًۭا لِّلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

“… and the will [of God] was done, and the ark came to rest on Mount Judi.” Hud 44

The Qur’an

al-Jūdī

“the ark came to rest on Mount Judi.”

Hud Hud 44 · Asad

Hebrew Bible

Ararat

“And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.”

وَٱسْتَقَرَّ ٱلْفُلْكُ فِي ٱلشَّهْرِ ٱلسَّابِعِ، فِي ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلسَّابِعَ عَشَرَ مِنَ ٱلشَّهْرِ، عَلَى جِبَالِ أَرَارَاطَ.

Genesis 8:4 · JPS 1917 / Arabic BibleLink score ⁨0.64⁩

Mesopotamia

Nisir

“on the mountain of Nisir the boat held fast”

Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XILink score ⁨0.71⁩

Qumran

Ararat

“the ark rested on one of the mountains of Ararat (HWRRT)”

Genesis Apocryphon 1QapGenLink score ⁨0.71⁩

Green numbers are link scores from the index: how strongly the passage matches the verse’s episode. A link is a parallel to read, not a claim of borrowing.

2,039 links across 36 episodes.

556 verses meet 280 passages in 9 sources: the Hebrew Bible, Gilgamesh, Enuma Elish, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi Library and the Gospel of Barnabas (medieval) among them.

Act VI of VIYour canvas

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Pin verses to a canvas and Q19 draws the lines between them: shared roots as you work, and the stored links from the index with their scores. Select a line to see the words behind it.

My study of mercy5 verses · 5 lines

A sample canvas of 5 verses: ⁨Al-Fatihah 1, Al-A’raf 156, Ar-Rum 21, Al-Anbiya 30, Hud 44⁩.

Your note

Al-A’raf 156 — mercy that “overspreads everything”. Ar-Rum 21 — mercy between two people. Same root, a different scope.

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