Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.83. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.96.Brief their enjoyment, but sore their punishment
They shall have small enjoyment in this world, and in that which is to come they shall suffer a grievous torment
An-Nahl النحل
- The Bee
- 128 verses
- 1,844 words
- Meccan
- 70th of 114 in revelation order
In plain wordsEditorial
An editorial summary of the translations. Not a translation or tafsir.
One hundred and twenty-eight verses that read as an inventory of what has been given: cattle, rain, the sea, the stars for navigation, night and day, and the bee — instructed to take from every fruit and to bring out a drink of varying colours in which there is healing. It takes its name from her.
Every verse as a number; tap one to open it. Shaded numbers mark verses where the translations differ most.
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worded differently
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: 0.79. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.83.To show ingratitude for what We have given them. Enjoy yourselves. You will soon know.
To prove how thankless are they for our gifts! Enjoy yourselves then: but in the end ye shall know the truth
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Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.78. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.91.So do not cite the examples for God. God knows, and you do not know.
Make no comparisons, therefore, with God. Verily, God hath knowledge, but ye have not
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.78. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.89.So be patient. Your patience is solely from God. And do not grieve over them, and do not be stressed by their schemes.
Wherefore do thou bear opposition with patience; but thy patience shall not be practicable, unless with God's assistance. And be not thou grieved on account of the unbelievers; neither be thou troubled for that which they subtly devise
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.75. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.80.To God bows down everything in the heavens and everything on earth-every living creature, and the angels, and without being proud.
Whatever is in the heavens and in the earth, beast or angel, adores God; nor are they big with pride
More about this surahDerived
- Verses
- 128
- Words
- 1,844
- Place
- Meccan
- Revelation position
- 70th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
- Opening letters
- None
- Bismillah
- Carried by the surah, unnumbered
- Word-by-word breakdown
- 59.8% of 1,844 words carry an analysis
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- 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 128 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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