You can use one or more keywords when searching the word by word translation, or you can use quotes to find an exact phrase.
- Ibrahim - find all verses containing the word Ibrahim
- they say- find either they or say
- "old woman" - search for an exact phrase using quotes
Search Options
- Words - search for whole words
- Substrings - use partial matching: searching for nine will match nineteen
- Exact phrase - return results that match all keywords in sequence
Verse and Word References
If you know the verse or word reference, you can type that directly into the search box:
Arabic Search
Using an Arabic keyword will find all words that match by stem. Prefixes and suffixes are ignored, as are diacritics and Quranic symbols:
- إِنجيل - find all verses containing the word Injeel
- stem:<injyl - the same search using the stem: operator with Buckwalter transliteration
Morphological Search
The following search operators work in combination using Arabic or with Buckwalter transliteration. See also the morphological search page.
- stem:ktAb - list all words by stem (كتاب).
- lem:{ll~ah - find all occurances of a lemma (الله).
- root:zwj - search by root (زوج).
- pos:v (x) - search by part-of-speech and form
Ontological Search
The con: search operator can be used to find occurances of a concept in the Quranic Ontology:
- con:jibreel - list all occurances of the angel Jibreel
The Quran search shows at most 50 results per page. You can click on a verse reference to see a full list of English translations, or click on a word reference to see details of that word's morphology.