Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
except an old woman who was among those that stayed behind
M. M. Pickthall
Save an old woman among those who stayed behind
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Except an old woman who was among those who lagged behind
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
except an old woman, who was one of the doomed.
Safi Kaskas
except an old woman who stayed behind.
Wahiduddin Khan
except for an old woman who stayed behin
Shakir
Except an old woman (who was) amongst those who tarried
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
but an old woman of the ones who stay behind.
T.B.Irving
except for an old woman who lagged behind.
Abdul Hye
except an old woman (who was) among those who remained behind
The Study Quran
save for an old woman who was among those who lagged behind
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Except an elderly woman who was among those left behind.
Talal Itani (2012)
Except for an old woman who lagged behind
Dr. Kamal Omar
except one who had crossed the age of fertility and hope — (we left her) among those who bury themselves in dust and debris
except an old woman who was among those who remained behind
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Except an old woman among the laggards
Muhammad Sarwar
except for an old woman who remained behind
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
except an old woman among those remaining behind
Shabbir Ahmed
Except an old woman who was among those who stayed behind in belief
Dr. Munir Munshey
Except an old woman destined to stay behind
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Except an old woman (his wife) who was with those who fell behind
Except his wife among those who remained [with the evildoers]
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
Except an old woman who remained
Abdel Haleem
except for an old woman who stayed behind
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Save an old woman among the lingerers
Ahmed Ali
Except an old woman who was one of those who stayed behind
Aisha Bewley
except an old woman among those who stayed behind.
Ali Ünal
Except an old woman among those who stayed behind
Ali Quli Qara'i
except an old woman among those who remained behind
Hamid S. Aziz
Except an old woman who was amongst those who lingered behind
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
Except an old woman (his wife who was) among those staying behind.
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
Except an old woman who was among those who lagged behind
Musharraf Hussain
except the old lady who remained behind.
Maududi
except for an old woman who was among those that stayed behind
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
Except an old woman who remained.
Mohammad Shafi
Except for an old woman who was left among those who remained behind
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
But an old woman who was among those who remained behind.
Only the old woman was doomed.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
except an old woman who lingered
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Except an old woman among those who remained behind
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
Except old/weak (his wife was) in the remaining behind
Bijan Moeinian
Except [his] old ugly woman who had to be punished [for not obeying him]
Faridul Haque
Except an old woman, who became of those who stayed behind
Sher Ali
Except an old women who was among those who stayed behind
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Except that old woman who was of those who stayed behind
Amatul Rahman Omar
Except an old woman (who) was among those who stayed behind (and did not go with those delivered)
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
Except an old woman (his wife) who was among those who remained behind
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
Except an old woman who was among the bygones.
Munir Mezyed
Except an old woman (his wife), who was among those who lagged behind:
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
Except an old woman who stayed behind.
Linda “iLHam” Barto
The only exception was an old woman [his wife] who was among those who stayed behind.
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
except for an old woman who lingered behind.
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
except for an old woman who lagged behind.
Samy Mahdy
Except an elderly woman in the remaining behind ones.
Sayyid Qutb
except for an old woman who stayed behind.
Ahmed Hulusi
Except the old woman (Lot’s wife who was an unbeliever) among those who remained.
Mir Aneesuddin
except an old woman (who was) among those who remained behind,
Except an old woman -his wife- who was left behind to perish in the general ruin
The Wise Quran
Except an old woman amongst those who lingered;