The Name Allah: A Seal at the Quran’s Centre

The name Allah

The pattern of 19 appears not only in the letters at the beginning of surahs, but also in the word at the semantic centre of the Quran.

Initial letters form a striking field within the Quran’s mathematical structure. Yet the pattern of 19 is not confined to the beginnings of surahs. The same structure appears in the word at the Quran’s semantic centre:

الله

The principal count: 2698

The name Allah occurs 2,698 times in the Quran.

Occurrences of Allah2,69819 × 142

Distinct verses1,820

Sum of verse numbers118,12319 × 6,217

Search for the name Allah in the Quran

This search includes attached forms of the same name, such as الله, والله, بالله and لله, but does not include other words from the same root or a different word family.

Verses containing the name Allah

The 2,698 occurrences of Allah are distributed across 1,820 different verses. When the verse numbers of these verses are added—counting each verse only once—the result is 118,123.

Data	Result
Total occurrences of the name Allah	2,698 = 19 × 142
Sum of the verse numbers containing Allah	118,123 = 19 × 6,217

The first is a word count. The second measures the distribution of the same word across Quranic verses.

In which surahs is Allah especially frequent?

The name Allah is not distributed evenly among the Quran’s surahs. Instead of choosing an arbitrary threshold for “frequent,” we can use the surah’s own length: let us call a surah dense in this name when its number of occurrences of Allah exceeds its number of verses.

Applying this measure to the whole Quran produces exactly 19 surahs.

#	Surah no.	Surah	Verse count	Allah count
1	3	Ali ‘Imran	200	209
2	4	An-Nisa	176	229
3	5	Al-Ma’ida	120	147
4	8	Al-Anfal	75	88
5	9	At-Tawba	127	168
6	24	An-Nur	64	80
7	33	Al-Ahzab	73	90
8	48	Al-Fath	29	39
9	49	Al-Hujurat	18	27
10	57	Al-Hadid	29	32
11	58	Al-Mujadila	22	40
12	59	Al-Hashr	24	29
13	60	Al-Mumtahana	13	21
14	61	As-Saff	14	17
15	62	Al-Jumu‘a	11	12
16	63	Al-Munafiqun	11	14
17	64	At-Taghabun	18	20
18	65	At-Talaq	12	25
19	66	At-Tahrim	12	13

Dense surahs19

Sum of surah numbers79819 × 42

The number 798 also appears as the combined total of the initial letters Kaf + Ha + Ya + Ayn + Sad in surah Maryam: 798 = 19 × 42.

82:19 — The 19th occurrence of Allah from the end

Al-Infitar is surah 82 and contains 19 verses. Its final verse, 82:19, ends with the name Allah. Counting occurrences of Allah backwards from the end of the Quran, this is the 19th.

Surah82

Verse count19

Final verse19

Final wordAllah

Allah sequence from the end19th

The name Allah in the Quran’s 19th verses

The following are the verses numbered 19 that contain the name Allah:

#	Surah	S. no.	Verse	Quran sequence no.	Allah sequence numbers	Sequence total	Allah count
1	Al-Baqara	2	19	26	9	9	1
2	Ali ‘Imran	3	19	312	300, 301, 302	903	3
3	An-Nisa	4	19	512	512	512	1
4	Al-Ma’ida	5	19	688	757	757	1
5	Al-An‘am	6	19	808	875, 876	1751	2
6	Al-Anfal	8	19	1179	1035	1035	1
7	At-Tawba	9	19	1254	1129, 1130, 1131, 1132	4522	4
8	Hud	11	19	1490	1343	1343	1
9	Yusuf	12	19	1613	1374	1374	1
10	Ibrahim	14	19	1767	1464	1464	1
11	An-Nahl	16	19	1918	1494	1494	1
12	An-Nur	24	19	2808	1723	1723	1
13	Al-‘Ankabut	29	19	3357	1876, 1877	3753	2
14	Al-Ahzab	33	19	3550	1981, 1982	3963	2
15	Fussilat	41	19	4235	2231	2231	1
16	Ash-Shura	42	19	4289	2253	2253	1
17	Ad-Dukhan	44	19	4431	2276	2276	1
18	Al-Jathiya	45	19	4490	2286, 2287	4573	2
19	Muhammad	47	19	4562	2322, 2323	4645	2
20	Al-Fath	48	19	4600	2362	2362	1
21	Al-Hadid	57	19	5092	2434	2434	1
22	Al-Mujadila	58	19	5121	2481	2481	1
23	Al-Hashr	59	19	5143	2513	2513	1
24	Nuh	71	19	5436	2651	2651	1
25	Al-Jinn	72	19	5464	2659	2659	1
26	Al-Infitar	82	19	5846	2680	2680	1

Sum of surah numbers842

Sum of Quran sequence numbers79,991

Sum of Allah sequence numbers58,361

Occurrences of Allah36

842 + 79,991 + 58,361 = 139,194
139,194 = 1,221 × 114

The number 1,221 is the Abjad value of verse 74:30, meaning “Over it are nineteen.” The same number is the total occurrence count in the Quran of Ghayn, the 19th letter of the Arabic alphabet.

The rope of Allah and 383

واعتصموا بحبل الله

“Hold firmly to the rope of Allah.”

The occurrence of Allah in this phrase is the 383rd from the beginning of the Quran. The numerical value of the word “Quran” is also 383, while the numerical value of the entire phrase is 722.

Allah sequence no. / value of ‘Quran’383

Value of the phrase72219 × 19 × 2

The numbers do not impose meaning on the phrase from outside. The text already contains “the rope of Allah”; its Allah sequence number and the numerical value of “Quran” meet at the same figure, 383.

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Conclusion of the study of the name Allah

2,698 = 19 × 142

118,123 = 19 × 6,217

Surahs in which Allah occurs more often than the verse count: 19 surahs

Sum of their surah numbers: 798 = 19 × 42

82:19: the 19th occurrence of Allah from the end

Table of 19th verses: 139,194 = 1,221 × 114

The rope of Allah: 383 / 722 = 19² × 2