Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.84. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.95.And it is on an existing road.
And those cities were punished, to point out a right way for men to walk in
Al-Hijr الحجر
- The Rock
- 99 verses
- 655 words
- Meccan
- 54th of 114 in revelation order
- Opens with الٓر
In plain wordsEditorial
An editorial summary of the translations. Not a translation or tafsir.
Ninety-nine verses: Iblis refusing to bow and granted a reprieve until an appointed day, Abraham's guests, and Lot's people at dawn. It takes its name from the rocky tract whose dwellers hewed their houses out of the mountains and felt secure. It opens with disconnected letters.
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Where the translators differDerived
The verses of this surah whose wording differs most, most differently worded first. Under each, the two renderings that share the fewest words are quoted in full under their translators' names; every rendering is on the verse's own page. This measures wording, not meaning.
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.81. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.94.And their labours availed them nothing
Neither was what they had wrought of any advantage unto them
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Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.81. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.93.Just as We sent down to the separatists.
We will punish those who foster divisions
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.80. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Perhaps those who disbelieve would like to become Muslims.
The time may come when the unbelievers shall wish that they had been Moslems
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.80. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.87.He said, "Then get out of here, for you are an outcast".
He said, 'Then get thee forth therefrom, and, verily, thou art to be pelted
More about this surahDerived
- Verses
- 99
- Words
- 655
- Place
- Meccan
- Revelation position
- 54th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
- Opening letters
- الٓر one of 29 surahs that open this way
- Bismillah
- Carried by the surah, unnumbered
- Word-by-word breakdown
- 60.8% of 655 words carry an analysis
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- 68
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- 1
- 111
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Meccan Medinan
Counted from the text and the spine at build time, not written into the page. Opening letters are derived from the edition's orthography: an opening token of at most five letters carrying none of its vocalisation marks. The revelation position is reproduced from Revelation order as encoded by the Tanzil metadata, which does not name whose ordering it is.
Analysis detailsDerived
These figures count the words the translations share. They measure wording, not meaning, and they do not say which translation is right.
- Mean score across this surah
- 0.63 across 99 scored verses
The page says a verse is worded differently only above the cut below. The cut is a stated convention, not a property of the text, and it can be changed.
- The cut
- 0.644
- Share of measured verses above it
- 33%
- Verses above it
- 2,079
- Verses measured
- 6,236
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
- Method
- Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
- Scored
- 6,236 verses
- As at
- 13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
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