سَمَاء
Samāʾ: sky, heaven
The 37th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
سَمَاء (samāʾ) means "sky, heaven". It appears 310 times in the Quran, making it the 37th most common word: about 0.4% of all the words you read.
#37most common word
310times in the Quran
0.4%of all the words
297ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
وَٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلطَّارِقِ
At-Tariq 86:1 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:19.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways سَمَاء is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ175×
- ٱلسَّمَآءِ81×
- ٱلسَّمَآءُ15×
- ٱلسَّمَآءَ13×
- ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتُ7×
The count includes every form of the word: singular and plural, and with endings like "the", "and" or "his" 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.