The word(s) "were" appears 425 time(s) in 385 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Pickthal translation.

(321) (Ye) who believed Our revelations and were self-surrendered,

(322) We verily brought the Truth unto you, but ye were, most of you, averse to the Truth.

(323) How many were the gardens and the watersprings that they left behind,

(324) And the heaven and the earth wept not for them, nor were they reprieved.

(325) Are they better, or the folk of Tubb'a and those before them? We destroyed them, for surely they were guilty.

(326) And as for those who disbelieved (it will be said unto them): were not Our revelations recited unto you? But ye were scornful and became a guilty folk.

(327) Those are they from whom We accept the best of what they do, and overlook their evil deeds. (They are) among the owners of the Garden. This is the true promise which they were promised (in the world).

(328) And on the day when those who disbelieve are exposed to the Fire (it will be said): Ye squandered your good things in the life of the world and sought comfort therein. Now this day ye are rewarded with the doom of ignominy because ye were disdainful in the land without a right, and because ye used to transgress.

(329) And verily We had empowered them with that wherewith We have not empowered you, and had assigned them ears and eyes and hearts; but their ears and eyes and hearts availed them naught since they denied the revelations of Allah; and what they used to mock befell them.

(330) And when We inclined toward thee (Muhammad) certain of the jinn, who wished to hear the Qur'an and, when they were in its presence, said: Give ear! and, when it was finished, turned back to their people, warning.