The word(s) "prefer" appears 23 time(s) in 21 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Pickthal translation.

(1) O Children of Israel! Remember My favour wherewith I favoured you and how I preferred you to (all) creatures.

(2) O Children of Israel! Remember My favour wherewith I favoured you and how I preferred you to (all) creatures.

(3) Let not the believers take disbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoso doeth that hath no connection with Allah unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them, taking (as it were) security. Allah biddeth you beware (only) of Himself. Unto Allah is the journeying.

(4) Lo! Allah preferred Adam and Noah and the Family of Abraham and the Family of 'Imran above (all His) creatures.

(5) And when the angels said: O Mary! Lo! Allah hath chosen thee and made thee pure, and hath preferred thee above (all) the women of creation.

(6) And Ishmael and Elisha and Jonah and Lot. Each one (of them) did We prefer above (Our) creatures,

(7) He said: O Moses! I have preferred thee above mankind by My messages and by My speaking (unto thee). So hold that which I have given thee, and be among the thankful.

(8) It is not for the townsfolk of Al-Madinah and for those around them of the wandering Arabs so stay behind the messenger of Allah and prefer their lives to his life. That is because neither thirst nor toil nor hunger afflicteth them in the way of Allah, nor step they any step that angereth the disbelievers, nor gain they from the enemy a gain, but a good deed is recorded for them therefor. Lo! Allah loseth not the wages of the good.

(9) Thus thy Lord will prefer thee and will teach thee the interpretation of events, and will perfect His grace upon thee and upon the family of Jacob as He perfected it upon thy forefathers, Abraham and Isaac. Lo! thy Lord is Knower, Wise.

(10) They said: By Allah, verily Allah hath preferred thee above us, and we were indeed sinful.