Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
And they sold him for a paltry price - a mere few silver coins: thus low did they value him
Arthur John Arberry
Then they sold him for a paltry price, a handful of counted dirhams; for they set small store by him
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
The (Brethren) sold him for a miserable price, for a few dirhams counted out: in such low estimation did they hold him
Arabic
وَشَرَوۡهُ بِثَمَنِۭ بَخۡسࣲ دَرَ ٰهِمَ مَعۡدُودَةࣲ وَكَانُوا۟ فِیهِ مِنَ ٱلزَّ ٰهِدِینَ ٢٠
Transliteration (2021)
washarawhu bithamanin bakhsin darāhima maʿdūdatin wakānū fīhi mina l-zāhidīn