The word(s) "said" appears 762 time(s) in 664 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Habib Shakir translation.

(381) They said: O Musa! will you cast, or shall we be the first who cast down?

(382) He said: Nay! cast down. then lo! their cords and their rods-- it was imaged to him on account of their magic as if they were running.

(383) We said: Fear not, surely you shall be the uppermost,

(384) And the magicians were cast down making obeisance; they said: We believe in the Lord of Haroun and Musa.

(385) (Firon) said: You believe in him before I give you leave; most surely he is the chief of you who taught you enchantment, therefore I will certainly cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will certainly crucify you on the trunks of the palm trees, and certainly you will come to know which of us is the more severe and the more abiding in chastising.

(386) They said: We do not prefer you to what has come to us of clear arguments and to He Who made us, therefore decide what you are going to decide; you can only decide about this world's life.

(387) He said: They are here on my track and I hastened on to Thee, my Lord, that Thou mightest be pleased.

(388) He said: So surely We have tried your people after you, and the Samiri has led them astray.

(389) So Musa returned to his people wrathful, sorrowing. said he: O my people! did not your Lord promise you a goodly promise: did then the time seem long to you, or did you wish that displeasure from your Lord should be due to you, so that you broke (your) promise to me?

(390) They said: We did not break (our) promise to you of our own accord, but we were made to bear the burdens of the ornaments of the people, then we made a casting of them, and thus did the Samiri suggest.