هُوَ
Also as an ending: ـهُ
Huwa: he, him, his (also it)
The 11th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
هُوَ (huwa, -hu) means "he, him, his (also it)". It appears 1,118 times in the Quran, making it the 11th most common word: about 1.44% of all the words you read.
#11most common word
1,118times in the Quran
1.44%of all the words
913ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
وَهُوَ يَخْشَىٰ
Abasa 80:9 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:22.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways هُوَ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- هُوَ265×
- بِهِۦ258×
- لَهُۥ184×
- وَهُوَ171×
- بِهِۦٓ39×
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
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.