As-Saffat Verse 147

We ˹later˺ sent him ˹back˺ to ˹his city of˺ at least one hundred thousand people,

We sent him to one hundred thousand people or more,

Then We sent him unto a hundred thousand, or more,

We sent him to a hundred thousand people or more.

And We had sent him to a hundred thousand: rather they exceeded.

And We sent him (on a mission) to a hundred thousand (men) or more.

and We sent him forth to a nation of a hundred thousand or more,

We sent him to a hundred thousand men or more,

And We sent him towards a hundred thousand people, in fact more.

We sent him to a [community of] hundred thousand or more,

And We sent him once again to (his people, numbering) a hundred thousand, rather they tended to increase.

And We sent him (back as a Messenger at Nineveh) to a people hundred thousand strong, rather they were even more.

And We sent him to one hundred thousand or they increase/exceed.

And We sent him towards a hundred thousand people, in fact more.

And We sent him to a hundred thousand folk or more.

And We sent him to a hundred thousand (people) or even more.

And We caused a gourd to grow up for him.

And We sent him to a hundred thousand, rather they exceeded.

And We sent him to a hundred thousand (folk) or more

We sent him to a hundred thousand or more people.

Then We sent him to a hundred thousand or more,

And We sent him to a hundred thousand (people) or even more.

We sent him as a messenger to a hundred thousand people or more,

Then We sent him to a hundred thousand, or more.

And We sent him, afterwards -- as [We had done] before, to a people in Nineveh, in the region of Mosul -- to a [community of a] hundred thousand or, in fact, more -- [a community of] twenty, thirty or seventy thousand.

And We sent him to a hundred thousand (people) or even more.

It is as if he was commanded, after he came forth from the fish, to go back to those to whom he had been sent in the first place, and they all believed in him.

أَوْ يَزِيدُونَ

or even more.

Makhul said,

"They numbered one hundred and ten thousand.

This was reported by Ibn Abi Hatim.

Ibn Jarir said,

"Some of the scholars of Arabic, the people of Basrah, said that this means up to one hundred thousand or more."

Ibn Jarir interpreted this Ayah as he interpreted the Ayat;

ثُمَّ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُكُمْ مِّن بَعْدِ ذلِكَ فَهِىَ كَالْحِجَارَةِ أَوْ أَشَدُّ قَسْوَةً

Then, after that, your hearts were hardened and became as stones or even worse in hardness. (2;74),

إِذَا فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُمْ يَخْشَوْنَ النَّاسَ كَخَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ أَوْ أَشَدَّ خَشْيَةً

Behold! a section of them fear men as they fear Allah or even more. (4;77)

and,

فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَى

And was at a distance of two bows' length or (even) nearer. (53;9)

The meaning is,

"not less than that, but rather more.