The word(s) "protect" appears 77 time(s) in 73 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Pickthal translation.

(61) And they will have no protecting friends to help them instead of Allah. He whom Allah sendeth astray, for him there is no road.

(62) Beyond them there is hell, and that which they have earned will naught avail them, nor those whom they have chosen for protecting friends beside Allah. Theirs will be an awful doom.

(63) And whoso respondeth not to Allah's summoner he can nowise escape in the earth, and he hath no protecting friends instead of Him. Such are in error manifest.

(64) While as for those who walk aright, He addeth to their guidance, and giveth them their protection (against evil).

(65) And if those who disbelieve join battle with you they will take to flight, and afterward they will find no protecting friend nor helper.

(66) He it is Who hath caused those of the People of the Scripture who disbelieved to go forth from their homes unto the first exile. Ye deemed not that they would go forth, while they deemed that their strongholds would protect them from Allah. But Allah reached them from a place whereof they recked not, and cast terror in their hearts so that they ruined their houses with their own hands and the hands of the believers. So learn a lesson, O ye who have eyes!

(67) Allah hath made lawful for you (Muslims) absolution from your oaths (of such a kind), and Allah is your protector. He is the Knower, the Wise.

(68) If ye twain turn unto Allah repentant, (ye have cause to do so) for your hearts desired (the ban); and if ye aid one another against him (Muhammad) then lo! Allah, even He, is his protecting Friend, and Gabriel and the righteous among the believers; and furthermore the angels are his helpers.

(69) Say (O Muhammad): Have ye thought: Whether Allah causeth me (Muhammad) and those with me to perish or hath mercy on us, still, who will protect the disbelievers from a painful doom?

(70) And indeed (O Muhammad) individuals of humankind used to invoke the protection of individuals of the jinn, so that they increased them in revolt against Allah);