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 4 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.
- 1 Samuel 22:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 22:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Listen now, son of Ahitub,” said Saul. “Here I am, my lord,” he replied.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 23:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O LORD, God of Israel, please tell Your servant.” “He will,” said the LORD.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 23:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Please go and prepare further. Investigate and watch carefully where he goes and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can spare to your servants and to your son David.’”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
She fell at his feet and said, “My lord, may the blame be on me alone, but please let your servant speak to you; hear the words of your servant.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My lord should pay no attention to this scoundrel Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means Fool, and folly accompanies him. I, your servant, did not see my lord’s young men whom you sent.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 26:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 26:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the LORD forbid that I should extend my hand against the LORD’s anointed. Instead, take the spear and water jug by his head, and let us go.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 26:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 27:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 28:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Saul disguised himself by putting on different clothes, and he set out with two of his men. They came to the woman at night, and Saul said, “Consult a spirit for me. Bring up for me the one I name.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 28:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now please listen to your servant and let me set a morsel of bread before you so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 30:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought it to him,
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 1:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“What was the outcome?” David asked. “Please tell me.” “The troops fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 1:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 2:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abner said to Joab, “Let us have the young men get up and compete before us.” “Let them get up,” Joab replied.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 7:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:24
· BSB · 2 occurrences
And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“If not,” said Absalom, “please let my brother Amnon go with us.” “Why should he go with you?” the king asked.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:2
· BSB · 2 occurrences
So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:18
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 15:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 15:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 16:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 17:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 17:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Absalom said, “Summon Hushai the Archite as well, and let us hear what he too has to say.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 18:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and tell the king the good news that the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 18:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Ahimaaz son of Zadok, however, persisted and said to Joab, “No matter what, please let me also run behind the Cushite!” “My son,” Joab replied, “why do you want to run, since you will not receive a reward?”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 19:37
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”
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- 2 Samuel 20:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here so that I may speak with him.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 24:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 24:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 24:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 24:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 1:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now please, come and let me advise you. Save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 2:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Adonijah replied, “Please speak to King Solomon, since he will not turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
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