إِذَا
Idhā: when
The 25th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
إِذَا (idhā) means "when". It appears 423 times in the Quran, making it the 25th most common word: about 0.55% of all the words you read.
#25most common word
423times in the Quran
0.55%of all the words
383ayahs 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 2:11.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways إِذَا is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- إِذَا170×
- وَإِذَا121×
- فَإِذَا76×
- إِذَآ25×
- أَءِذَا11×
Small words like this are among the most frequent in the Quran. The count includes every time it appears, including with "and" or "so" attached.
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.