The word(s) "scarce" appears 3 time(s) in 3 verse(s) in Quran in Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation.

(1) Until, when he reached (a tract) between two mountains, he found, beneath them, a people who scarcely understood a word.

(2) Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light: Allah doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things.

(3) "Am I not better than this (Moses), who is a contemptible wretch and can scarcely express himself clearly?