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Lexicon :: Strong's H4994 - nā'

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נָא
Transliteration
nā'
Pronunciation
naw
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Part of Speech
particle
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered:
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TWOT Reference: 1269

Strong’s Definitions

נָא nâʼ, naw; 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:—I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's H4994 in the following manner: now, I beseech ..., I pray ..., Oh, go to.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's H4994 in the following manner: now, I beseech ..., I pray ..., Oh, go to.

  1. I (we) pray, now, please

    1. used in entreaty or exhortation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָא nâʼ, naw; 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:—I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.
STRONGS H4994: Abbreviations
I. נָא particle of entreaty or exhortation I (we) pray, now (enclitic) (Syriac acn, Wcn; compare Ethiopic ነዲ፡ veni, age! Di§ 160.1 Lex675 Köii. 244); — attached:
1. to the imperative, especially in colloquial style, when it expresses an entreaty or admonition, as Genesis 12:13 אִמְרִי־נָא say, I pray, Genesis 13:9 הִפָּרֶד־ מֵעָלַי נָא, Genesis 13:14 שָׂא־נָא עֵינֶיךָ, Genesis 15:5 הַבֶּט־נָא השׁמימה, Genesis 24:2 + often, Numbers 20:10 שׁמעו־נא המוֺרים, Judges 13:4; Judges 16:6, 10, 28; Judges 18:5, etc., Isaiah 1:18; Isaiah 5:3; Amos 7:2, 5; rarely in a command, Genesis 22:2; Isaiah 7:3). Ironically, in a challenge, Isaiah 47:12; Job 40:10. Once anomalously attached to a substantive, or (accents) prefixed to a verb, Numbers 12:13 אֵ֕ל נָא֛ רְָפָ֥א נָא֖ (Ew § 246 a Di אַל־נָא; see 3b).
2. to the perfect with waw consecutive, in a precative sense (Dr§ 119 δ) Genesis 40:14.
3. to the imperfect, when leave is asked, or a prayer or desire expressed;
a. in 1st person, especially with ה cohortative, Genesis 19:8 אוציאה־נא let me, I pray, bring out, Genesis 19:20 אִמָּֽלְטָה־נָּא שָׁ֑מָּה, Genesis 24:12 הַקְרֵה־נָא לְפָנַי Genesis 24:14 הַטִּי־נָא Genesis 24:17; Genesis 24:23; Genesis 24:43; Genesis 24:45; Genesis 25:30; Genesis 32:12, 30 + often, Exodus 3:18 נלכה־נא let us go, I pray, Numbers 20:17; Isaiah 5:5; and in self-deliberation, Genesis 18:21 ארדה־נּא I will go down, now ! Exodus 3:3 אסורה־נּא ואראה I will turn aside, now, and see, 2 Samuel 14:15; Songs 3:2; Isaiah 5:1; with אַל Job 32:21.
b. in 2nd person, with אַל, in deprecation, Genesis 18:3 אל־נא תעבר מעל עבדך, Genesis 19:7; Genesis 47:29; Numbers 10:31, etc.; hence elliptical אל־נא do not, I pray, (do this,) Genesis 19:18; Genesis 33:10; Numbers 12:13 Ew Di.
c. in 3rd person, Genesis 18:4 יֻקַּח־נָא let there be brought, I pray, Genesis 26:28; Genesis 33:14; Genesis 44:18, 33, etc., 2 Samuel 14:11, 12, 17; 1 Kings 17:21; 2 Kings 2:9; Psalm 7:10; Psalm 118:2; Psalm 118:3; ironically Isaiah 19:12; Isaiah 47:13, or defiantly Jeremiah 17:15 where is the word of J.? יָבוֺא נָא; with אַל, Genesis 13:8 אַל־נָא תְהִי מְרִיבָה, Genesis 18:30 אַל־נָא יִחַר לַאדֹנָי, Genesis 37:27; Numbers 12:12.
4. joined to conjunctions and interjections:
a. [אָהּ־נָא, contracted] H577 אָ֫נָּא.
b. אַל־נָא see above 3b, c.
c. אִם־נָא, especially in the phrase אם נא מצאתי חן בעיניך, used by one craving a favourable hearing Genesis 30:27; Genesis 33:10; Judges 6:17; 1 Samuel 27:5, and with נא repeated in the request itself Genesis 18:3; Genesis 47:29; Genesis 50:4; Exodus 33:13; Exodus 34:9; otherwise Genesis 24:42.
d. הִנֵּה־נָא behold, I pray, craving a favourable consideration of the fact pointed to by הִנֵּה, and of the request founded upon it (with which נא is often repeated), Genesis 12:11; Genesis 16:2; Genesis 18:27, 31; Genesis 19:2, 8, 19, 20; Genesis 27:2; Judges 13:3; Judges 19:9; 1 Samuel 9:6; 1 Samuel 16:15; 2 Samuel 13:24; 2 Kings 2:16, 19; 2 Kings 4:9 +, Job 13:18; Job 33:2; Job 40:15, 16.
e. (לנו) אוֺי־נָא לי Woe, now, to me (us) ! Jeremiah 4:31; Jeremiah 45:3; Lamentations 5:16.
f. אַיֵּה־נָא where, pray ? Psalm 115:2.
g. נֶגְדָּה־נָּא, peculiarly, Psalm 116:14; Psalm 116:18 my vows to J. I will perform, נגדה־נא לכל־עמו O that (it may be) before all his people !

† II. נָא adjective raw, of flesh Exodus 12:9 (P; opposed to H1311 בשׁל). I. נָא above.
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Genesis

12:11; 12:13; 13:8; 13:9; 13:14; 15:5; 16:2; 18:3; 18:3; 18:4; 18:21; 18:27; 18:30; 18:31; 19:2; 19:7; 19:8; 19:8; 19:18; 19:19; 19:20; 19:20; 22:2; 24:2; 24:12; 24:14; 24:17; 24:23; 24:42; 24:43; 24:45; 25:30; 26:28; 27:2; 30:27; 32:12; 32:30; 33:10; 33:10; 33:14; 37:27; 40:14; 44:18; 44:33; 47:29; 47:29; 50:4

Exodus

3:3; 3:18; 12:9; 33:13; 34:9

Numbers

10:31; 12:12; 12:13; 12:13; 20:10; 20:17

Judges

6:17; 13:3; 13:4; 16:6; 16:10; 16:28; 18:5; 19:9

1 Samuel

9:6; 16:15; 27:5

2 Samuel

13:24; 14:11; 14:12; 14:15; 14:17

1 Kings

17:21

2 Kings

2:9; 2:16; 2:19; 4:9

Job

13:18; 32:21; 33:2; 40:10; 40:15; 40:16

Psalms

7:10; 115:2; 116:14; 116:18; 118:2; 118:3

Song of Songs

3:2

Isaiah

1:18; 5:1; 5:3; 5:5; 7:3; 19:12; 47:12; 47:13

Jeremiah

4:31; 17:15; 45:3

Lamentations

5:16

Amos

7:2; 7:5

H4994

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Strong's Number H4994 matches the Hebrew נָא (nā'),
which occurs 403 times in 374 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 8 (Gen 37:32–Jdg 1:24)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:32 - and they sent the varicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, “We found this; please H4994 recognize it—whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16 - So he turned aside to her by the road and said, “Here now H4994, let me come in to you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:25 - It was while she was being brought out that she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man to whom these things belong.” And she said, “Please H4994 recognize this and see, whose signet ring and cords and staff are these?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:8 - Then they said to him, “We have [fn]had a dream, and there is no one to interpret it.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Recount it to me, please H4994.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:14 - “Only remember me when it goes well with you, and please H4994 show me lovingkindness by remembering me to Pharaoh and getting me out of this house.

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Then Judah came near to him and said, “O my lord, may your servant please H4994 speak a word in my lord’s ears, and [fn]do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:33 - “So now, please H4994 let your servant remain instead of the boy as a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers.

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Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please H4994 come near to me.” And they came near. And he said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is heavy in the land of Canaan. So now, please H4994 let your servants [fn]live in the land of Goshen.”

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Then the days for Israel to die drew near, and he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Please H4994, if I have found favor in your sight, place now H4994 your hand under my thigh and deal with me in lovingkindness and truth. Please H4994 do not bury me in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:9 - And Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” So he said, “Bring them to me, please H4994, that I may bless them.”

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Then the days of weeping for him were past, and Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now H4994 I have found favor in your sight, please H4994 speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” So now, please H4994 let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:17 - ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph, “Please H4994 forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they dealt evil against you.”’ So now, please H4994 forgive the transgression of the slaves of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:3 - So Moses said, “[fn]I must turn aside now H4994 and see this [fn]marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burned up?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - “And they will listen to your voice; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt, and you all will say to him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please H4994, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.’

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And Yahweh furthermore said to him, “Now H4994 put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom; then he took it out, and behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:13 - But he said, “Please, Lord, [fn]send now H4994 the message by whomever You will.”

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Then Moses went and returned to [fn]Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please H4994, let me go, that I may return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please H4994, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God, lest He confront us with pestilence or with the sword.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:11 - “Not so! Go now H4994, the men among you, and serve Yahweh, for [fn]that is what you are seeking.” So they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:17 - “So now, please H4994 forgive my sin only this once and entreat Yahweh your God, that He would only cause this death to depart from me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:2 - “Speak now H4994 in the [fn]hearing of the people so that each man may ask from his neighbor and each woman from her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32 - “But now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, please H4994 blot me out from Your book which You have written!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:13 - “So now, I pray H4994 You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. See also, that this nation is Your people.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:18 - Then [fn]Moses said, “I pray H4994 You, show me Your glory!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:9 - And he said, “If now H4994 I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray H4994, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though [fn]they are a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your own inheritance.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - Then he said, “Please H4994 do not leave us, inasmuch as you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will be as eyes for us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:15 - “So if You are going to deal thus with me, please H4994 kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:6 - and He said,

“Hear now H4994 My words:

If there is a prophet among you,

I, Yahweh, shall make Myself known to him in a vision.

I shall speak with him in a dream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:11 - Then Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, I beg you, do not place this sin on us, in which we have acted foolishly and in which we have sinned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - “Oh H4994, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother’s womb!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:13 - And Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, “O God, heal her, I pray H4994!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:17 - “So now, I pray H4994, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have [fn]declared,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:19 - “Pardon, I pray H4994, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:8 -

Then Moses said to Korah, “Hear now H4994, you sons of Levi,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:26 - and he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Turn aside now H4994 from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest you be swept away in all their sin.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - and Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly before the rock. And he said to them, “Listen now H4994, you rebels; shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - ‘Please H4994 let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard; we will not even drink water from a well. We will go along the king’s highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we pass through your territory.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6 - “So now, please H4994 come, curse this people for me since they are too [fn]mighty for me; perhaps I may be able to strike them down and drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:16 - And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, ‘Let nothing, I beg H4994 you, withhold you from coming to me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:17 - for I will indeed honor you richly, and I will do whatever you say to me. Please H4994 come then, curse this people for me.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:19 - “So now, please H4994, you also stay here tonight, and I will know what else Yahweh will speak to me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 -

Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please H4994 come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will be right in the eyes of God that you curse them for me from there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:25 - ‘Let me, I pray H4994, cross over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, [fn]that good hill country and Lebanon.’

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“Indeed, ask now H4994 concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created [fn]man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:12 - “So now, please H4994 swear to me by Yahweh, since I have shown lovingkindness to you, that you also will show lovingkindness to my father’s household and give me a pledge of [fn]truth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:19 - Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, I implore H4994 you, give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and give praise to Him; and declare to me now H4994 what you have done. Do not hide it from me.”

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“Therefore we said, ‘Let us [fn]build an altar, not for burnt offering or for sacrifice;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:24 - Then the [fn]spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, “Please H4994 show us the entrance to the city, and we will treat you with lovingkindness.”

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