TBESH · H0994
בִּי · bi · please
1) if it please, pray excuse me, excuse me please 1a) used to introduce an entreaty or request
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bi H994
בִּי (bi) means “please” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
בִּי Hebrew · H994 12 tagged occurrences in 12 verses
Pronunciation guide: bee Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
perhaps from H1158 (בָּעָה) (in the sense of asking); properly, a request; used only adverbially (always with 'my Lord'); oh that!; with leave, or if it please
KJV glosses: alas, O, oh.
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How translators render H994
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 | 9 |
| o | 1 |
| sir | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| o | 7 |
| oh | 2 |
| unto him oh | 2 |
| alas | 1 |
Verses containing H994
Page 1 of 1. 12 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 43:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.
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 - Exodus 4:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”
Read word by word - Exodus 4:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
Read word by word - Numbers 12:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and said to Moses, “My lord, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.
Read word by word - Joshua 7:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
Read word by word - Judges 6:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
Read word by word - Judges 6:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
Read word by word - Judges 13:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 1:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 3:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
One woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 3:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
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