هُمْ

Also as an ending: ـهُمْ

Hum: they, them, their

The 14th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026

Short answer

هُمْ (hum, -hum) means "they, them, their". It appears 906 times in the Quran, making it the 14th most common word: about 1.17% of all the words you read.

#14most common word
906times in the Quran
1.17%of all the words
790ayahs it appears in

Example from the Quran

فَإِذَا هُم بِٱلسَّاهِرَةِ

An-Nazi'at 79:14 · Read the translation on Quran.com

It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:4.

How it appears in the Quran

The most common ways هُمْ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:

  • لَهُمْ217×
  • هُمْ144×
  • وَهُمْ110×
  • هُمُ80×
  • لَهُم69×

This count includes the word on its own and when it is the main part of a short word, such as لَهُ (for him). It does not count endings attached to other words.

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Sources

  1. Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.