Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.90. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Lost in your frivolity?
and ye divert yourselves the while
An-Najm النجم
- The Star
- 62 verses
- 360 words
- Meccan
- 23th of 114 in revelation order
In plain wordsEditorial
An editorial summary of the translations. Not a translation or tafsir.
Sixty-two verses opening with an oath by the star, and saying that the speaker's companion neither errs nor speaks out of his own desire. It names three things called upon - al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat - and says they are names their callers and their fathers gave, with no authority sent down for them. It closes with an instruction to prostrate and serve God.
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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: 0.88. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.The one of vigor. He settled.
endowed with sound understanding, and appeared
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Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.82. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.91.The inevitable is imminent.
The day that must draw nigh, draweth nigh already
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.79. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.94.Shall there be male offspring for Him and female for you
Are yours the males and His the females
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.78. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.What a bizarre distribution.
That were an unfair division
More about this surahDerived
- Verses
- 62
- Words
- 360
- Place
- Meccan
- Revelation position
- 23th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
- Opening letters
- None
- Bismillah
- Carried by the surah, unnumbered
- Word-by-word breakdown
- 54.2% of 360 words carry an analysis
- 96
- 68
- 73
- 74
- 1
- 111
- 81
- 87
- 92
- 89
- 93
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- 103
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- 113
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- 53
- 80
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- 104
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- 50
- 90
- 86
- 54
- 38
- 7
- 72
- 36
- 25
- 35
- 19
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- 56
- 26
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- 28
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- 10
- 11
- 12
- 15
- 6
- 37
- 31
- 34
- 39
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- 41
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- 51
- 88
- 18
- 16
- 71
- 14
- 21
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- 32
- 52
- 67
- 69
- 70
- 78
- 79
- 82
- 84
- 30
- 29
- 83
- 2
- 8
- 3
- 33
- 60
- 4
- 99
- 57
- 47
- 13
- 55
- 76
- 65
- 98
- 59
- 24
- 22
- 63
- 58
- 49
- 66
- 64
- 61
- 62
- 48
- 5
- 9
- 110
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
- 0.62 across 62 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
Sources for this page
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