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 7 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.
- Song of Solomon 3:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
Read word by word - Song of Solomon 7:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 7.9
- Isaiah 1:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
Read word by word - Isaiah 5:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
Read word by word - Isaiah 5:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.
Read word by word - Isaiah 5:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
Read word by word - Isaiah 7:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,
Read word by word - Isaiah 7:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?
Read word by word - Isaiah 19:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.
Read word by word - Isaiah 29:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 29:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 36:4
· 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 - Isaiah 36:8
· 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 - Isaiah 36:11
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Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 38:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
saying, “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 - Isaiah 47:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
Read word by word - Isaiah 47:13
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You are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you—your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.
Read word by word - Isaiah 51:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.
Read word by word - Isaiah 64:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 64.8
- Jeremiah 4:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 5:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 5:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 5:24
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They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 7:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 17:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 18:11
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 18:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 21:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is waging war against us. Perhaps the LORD will perform for us something like all His past wonders, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 25:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 27:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If they are indeed prophets and the word of the LORD is with them, let them now plead with the LORD of Hosts that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, not be taken to Babylon.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 28:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, listen now to this message I am speaking in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 28:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, but you have persuaded this people to trust in a lie.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 30:6
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Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 32:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 35:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 36:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please sit down,” they said, “and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 36:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 37:3
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Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet with the message, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us!”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 37:20
· BSB · 2 occurrences
But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 38:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city, as well as all the people, by speaking such words to them; this man is not seeking the well-being of these people, but their ruin.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 38:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Ebed-melech the Cushite cried out to Jeremiah, “Put these worn-out rags and clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,
Read word by word - Jeremiah 38:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 38:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If the officials hear that I have spoken with you, and they come and demand of you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what he said to you; do not hide it from us, or we will kill you,’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 40:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 42:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire remnant. For few of us remain of the many, as you can see with your own eyes.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 44:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 45:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”
Read word by word - Lamentations 1:18
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The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
Read word by word - Lamentations 5:16
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The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Read word by word - Ezekiel 8:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.
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