Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.78. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.95.And how will you endure what you have no knowledge of?"
How canst thou be patient in matters whose meaning thou comprehendest not
Al-Kahf الكهف
- The Cave
- 110 verses
- 1,579 words
- Meccan
- 69th of 114 in revelation order
In plain wordsEditorial
An editorial summary of the translations. Not a translation or tafsir.
One hundred and ten verses holding a run of narratives: young men who take refuge in the cave this surah is named for, a man with two gardens, Moses travelling with a servant of God, and a traveller called only by a name none of the four renderings translates — closing with the sea running out before the words of the Lord would, and an instruction to say that the speaker is only a mortal like those he addresses. It opens by praising the sending down of a Book with no crookedness in it.
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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: 0.77. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.90.And We will turn what is on it into barren waste.
But we are surely about to reduce all that is thereon to dust
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Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.76. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Abiding therein forever, without desiring any change therefrom.
Wherein they will abide, with no desire to be removed from thence
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.75. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.96.And never say of anything, 'Verily, I am going to do that to-morrow
Therefore be clear in they discussions about them, and ask not any Christian concerning them
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.74. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.90."Those whose efforts in this world are misguided, while they assume that they are doing well."
whose endeavour in the present life hath been wrongly directed, and who think they do the work which is right
More about this surahDerived
- Verses
- 110
- Words
- 1,579
- Place
- Meccan
- Revelation position
- 69th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
- Opening letters
- None
- Bismillah
- Carried by the surah, unnumbered
- Word-by-word breakdown
- 61.2% of 1,579 words carry an analysis
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- 1
- 111
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- 90
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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
- 0.60 across 110 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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