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 5 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 Kings 8:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 13:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 14:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 17:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 17:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 17:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boy’s life return to him!”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 18:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 19:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 20:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said, “Please take note and see that this man is looking for trouble, for when he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, I did not deny him.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 20:31
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 20:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So with sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, they went to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please spare my life.’” And the king answered, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 20:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, by the word of the LORD, one of the sons of the prophets said to his companion, “Strike me, please!” But the man refused to strike him.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 20:37
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the prophet found another man and said, “Strike me, please!” So the man struck him and wounded him,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 22:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the word of the LORD.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 22:13
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah instructed him, “Behold now, with one accord the words of the prophets are favorable to the king. So please let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 1:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours please be precious in your sight.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 2:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Bethel.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 2:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Jericho.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 2:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to the Jordan.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 2:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
After they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken away from you?” “Please, let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 2:16
· BSB · 2 occurrences
“Look now,” they said to Elisha, “we your servants have fifty valiant men. Please let them go and search for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and put him on one of the mountains or in one of the valleys.” “Do not send them,” Elisha replied.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 2:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please note, our lord, that the city’s location is good, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 4:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 4:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 4:13
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and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 4:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 4:26
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Please run out now to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’” And she answered, “Everything is all right.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 5:7
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When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 5:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king: “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let the man come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 5:15
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “Now I know for sure that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 5:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 5:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘Look, two young men from the sons of the prophets have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.’”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 6:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 6:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there.” “Go,” said Elisha.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 6:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then one of them said, “Please come with your servants.” “I will come,” he replied.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 6:17
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Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 6:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 7:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 7:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 8:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 9:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“That is a lie!” they said. “Tell us now!” So Jehu answered, “He talked to me about this and that, saying, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 9:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of this cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 18:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
Read word by word - 2 Kings 18:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!
Read word by word - 2 Kings 18:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 19:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 20:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 21:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 21:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 21:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.”
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