TBESH · H4994
נָא · na · please
1) I (we) pray, now, please 1a) used in entreaty or exhortation
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na H4994
נָא (na) means “please” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
נָא Hebrew · H4994 404 tagged occurrences in 375 verses
Pronunciation guide: naw Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered; 'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
KJV glosses: I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.
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How translators render H4994
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| please | 158 |
| now | 58 |
| i pray | 7 |
| so please | 4 |
| i beg you | 2 |
| o | 2 |
| therefore | 2 |
| we pray | 2 |
| but please | 1 |
| carefully | 1 |
| i am now | 1 |
| i exhort | 1 |
| i urge you | 1 |
| if you please | 1 |
| indeed | 1 |
| let them now | 1 |
| may | 1 |
| now i plead | 1 |
| please allow me | 1 |
| please stay | 1 |
| then | 1 |
| this time | 1 |
| to see whether | 1 |
| until | 1 |
| we beseech you | 1 |
| would you please | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| i beseech thee | 1 |
| i pray now | 1 |
| i pray thee | 1 |
| i pray you | 1 |
| let | 1 |
| let her not be as one dead | 1 |
| now | 1 |
| now therefore go to | 1 |
| oh | 1 |
Verses containing H4994
Page 2 of 8. 375 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 37:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
Read word by word - Genesis 38:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
Read word by word - Genesis 38:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
Read word by word - Genesis 40:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
Read word by word - Genesis 40:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But when it goes well for you, please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.
Read word by word - Genesis 44:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Judah approached Joseph and said, “Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh himself.
Read word by word - Genesis 44:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
Read word by word - Genesis 45:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!
Read word by word - Genesis 47:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”
Read word by word - Genesis 47:29
· BSB · 3 occurrences
When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Read word by word - Genesis 48:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” So Jacob said, “Please bring them to me, that I may bless them.”
Read word by word - Genesis 50:4
· BSB · 2 occurrences
When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that
Read word by word - Genesis 50:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”
Read word by word - Genesis 50:17
· BSB · 2 occurrences
‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.’ So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
Read word by word - Exodus 3:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
Read word by word - Exodus 3:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
Read word by word - Exodus 4:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Furthermore, the LORD said to Moses, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was leprous, white as snow.
Read word by word - Exodus 4:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
Read word by word - Exodus 4:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.
Read word by word - Exodus 5:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”
Read word by word - Exodus 10:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
No, only the men may go and worship the LORD, since that is what you have been requesting.” And Moses and Aaron were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.
Read word by word - Exodus 10:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”
Read word by word - Exodus 11:2
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Now announce to the people that men and women alike should ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.”
Read word by word - Exodus 32:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
Read word by word - Exodus 33:13
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”
Read word by word - Exodus 33:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.”
Read word by word - Exodus 34:9
· BSB · 2 occurrences
“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
Read word by word - Numbers 10:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.
Read word by word - Numbers 11:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
Read word by word - Numbers 12:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
Read word by word - Numbers 12:11
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and said to Moses, “My lord, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.
Read word by word - Numbers 12:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
Read word by word - Numbers 12:13
· BSB · 2 occurrences
So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”
Read word by word - Numbers 14:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:
Read word by word - Numbers 14:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
Read word by word - Numbers 16:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Moses also said to Korah, “Now listen, you sons of Levi!
Read word by word - Numbers 16:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
Read word by word - Numbers 20:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”
Read word by word - Numbers 20:17
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Please let us pass through your land. We will not go through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
Read word by word - Numbers 22:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”
Read word by word - Numbers 22:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They came to Balaam and said, “This is what Balak son of Zippor says: ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,
Read word by word - Numbers 22:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
for I will honor you richly and do whatever you say. So please come and put a curse on this people for me!’”
Read word by word - Numbers 22:19
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So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”
Read word by word - Numbers 23:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp—not all of them. And from there, curse them for me.”
Read word by word - Numbers 23:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please come,” said Balak, “I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you curse them for me from there.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 3:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 4:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
Read word by word - Joshua 2:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD that you will indeed show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign
Read word by word - Joshua 7:19
· BSB · 2 occurrences
So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
Read word by word - Joshua 22:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
That is why we said, ‘Let us take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.
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