Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.78. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.89.But my call added only to their flight.
and my cry doth but make them flee from me the more
Nooh نوح
- Noah
- 28 verses
- 226 words
- Meccan
- 71th of 114 in revelation order
In plain wordsEditorial
An editorial summary of the translations. Not a translation or tafsir.
Twenty-eight verses, almost entirely one man's report of his own work: calling by night and by day, in private and in public, and the sound of people putting their fingers in their ears and pulling their garments over themselves. He names the idols they would not leave.
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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: 0.70. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.86.They have misled many, so do not increase the wrongdoers except in confusion."
And they caused many to err; - and thou, too, O Muhammad! shalt be the means of increasing only error in the wicked
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Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.69. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.87.Although He created you in stages.
For He it is who hath formed you by successive steps
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.68. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.86.That you may travel its diverse roads.'"
that ye may walk therein in broad paths
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.68. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.78.Then I appealed to them publicly, and I spoke to them privately.
Then again spake I with plainness, and in private did I secretly address them
More about this surahDerived
- Verses
- 28
- Words
- 226
- Place
- Meccan
- Revelation position
- 71th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
- Opening letters
- None
- Bismillah
- Carried by the surah, unnumbered
- Word-by-word breakdown
- 60.6% of 226 words carry an analysis
- 96
- 68
- 73
- 74
- 1
- 111
- 81
- 87
- 92
- 89
- 93
- 94
- 103
- 100
- 108
- 102
- 107
- 109
- 105
- 113
- 114
- 112
- 53
- 80
- 97
- 91
- 85
- 95
- 106
- 101
- 75
- 104
- 77
- 50
- 90
- 86
- 54
- 38
- 7
- 72
- 36
- 25
- 35
- 19
- 20
- 56
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 17
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 15
- 6
- 37
- 31
- 34
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 51
- 88
- 18
- 16
- 71
- 14
- 21
- 23
- 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
- 0.59 across 28 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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