49 times in the Quran · 1 word form · rank 203

The Quran root ع ق ل ʿ-q-l

Words built from the root ع ق ل ([ʿ-q-l]) appear 49 times in the Quran. The most common is عَقَلُ, “understand”, which comes 49 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

Word	Say it	Meaning	Times
عَقَلُ	ʿaqalu	understand · use reason	49

Examples from the Quran

أَتَأْمُرُونَ النَّاسَ بِالْبِرِّ وَتَنسَوْنَ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ تَتْلُونَ الْكِتَابَ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ ٤٤

تَعْقِلُونَ taʿqilūna · you use reason

Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason? (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:44)

فَقُلْنَا اضْرِبُوهُ بِبَعْضِهَا كَذَٰلِكَ يُحْيِي اللَّهُ الْمَوْتَىٰ وَيُرِيكُمْ آيَاتِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ ٧٣

تَعْقِلُونَ taʿqilūna · use your intellect

So We said, "Strike him [i.e., the slain man] with part of it." Thus does Allāh bring the dead to life, and He shows you His signs that you might reason. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:73)

Surahs where it comes most

Each meaning is taken from the word-by-word translation of the verses, so a word can show two meanings from different contexts. Root and base-word data come from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.