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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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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

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 3 / 8 (Jdg 4:19–1Sa 22:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - Then he said to her, “Please H4994 give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a [fn]bottle of milk and gave him a drink; then she covered him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:17 - So [fn]Gideon said to Him, “If now H4994 I have found favor in Your eyes, then do a sign for me that it is You who speak with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:18 - “Please H4994 do not depart from here until I come back to You, and I bring out my offering and lay it before You.” And He said, “I will remain until you return.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:39 - Then Gideon said to God, “Do not let Your anger burn against me that I may speak once more; please H4994 let me make a test once more with the fleece; let it now H4994 be dry only on the fleece, and let there be dew on all the ground.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - “So now, [fn]come H4994, call H4994 out in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is afraid and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So 22,000 people returned, but 10,000 remained.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5 - And he said to the men of Succoth, “Please H4994 give loaves of bread to the people who are following me, for they are weary, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:2 - “Speak, now H4994, in the hearing of all the lords of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or that one man rule over you?’ Also, remember that I am your bone and your flesh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:38 - Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your [fn]boasting now with which you said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Is this not the people whom you rejected? Go out now and fight with them!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:15 - Then the sons of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned, so You, do to us whatever seems good in Your eyes; only please H4994 deliver us this day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:17 - then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, “Please H4994 let us pass through your land,” but the king of Edom would not listen. And they also sent to the king of Moab, but he was not willing. So Israel remained at Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - ‘And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, “Please H4994 let us pass through your land to our place.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - then they would say to him, “Say now H4994, ‘Shibboleth.’” But he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not [fn]pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. Thus there fell at that time 42,000 of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:3 - Then the angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold now H4994, you are barren and have borne no children, but you [fn]shall be with child and give birth to a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:4 - “So now, be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing.

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Then Manoah entreated Yahweh and said, “O Lord, please H4994 let the man of God whom You have sent come to us again that he may instruct us what to do for the boy who is to be born.”

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Then Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, “Please H4994 let us delay you so that we may prepare a young goat for you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12 - Then Samson said to them, “Let me now H4994 propound a riddle to you; if you will indeed tell it to me within the seven days of the feast and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen wraps and thirty changes of clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - And her father said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister better than she? Please H4994 let her be yours [fn]instead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - So Delilah said to Samson, “Please H4994 tell me where your great strength is and [fn]how you may be bound to afflict you.”

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Then Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have deceived me and told me lies; now please H4994 tell me [fn]how you may be bound.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:28

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Then Samson called to Yahweh and said, “O Lord Yahweh, please H4994 remember me and please H4994 strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:5 - And they said to him, “Ask of God, please H4994, that we may know whether our way on which we are going will be successful.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:6 - So both of them sat down and ate and drank together; and the girl’s father said to the man, “Please H4994 be willing to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:8 - And on the fifth day he arose to go early in the morning, and the girl’s father said, “Please H4994 sustain [fn]yourself and wait until [fn]afternoon”; so both of them ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - Then the man arose to go along with his concubine and young man, and his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Behold now H4994, the day has drawn [fn]to a close; please H4994 spend the night. Behold, the day is [fn]coming to an end; spend the night here that your heart may be merry. Then tomorrow you may arise early for your journey so that you may go to your tent.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11 - They were alongside of Jebus, and the day was almost gone. And the young man said to his master, “Come, please H4994, and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:23 - Then the man, the owner of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, please H4994 do not do evil. Since this man has come into my house, do not commit this disgraceful act.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:24 - “Behold, my daughter who is a virgin, and his concubine—please H4994 let me bring them out that you may violate them and do to them whatever is good in your eyes. But do not commit such a disgraceful act against this man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please H4994 let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one whom I may find favor in his eyes.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:7 - “And she said, ‘Please H4994 let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ Thus she came and has remained from the morning until now; she has been sitting in the house for a little while.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:36 - ‘And it will be that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a [fn]piece of silver or a loaf of bread and say, “Please H4994 [fn]assign me to one of the priest’s offices so that I may eat a piece of bread.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:17 - And he said, “What is the word that He spoke to you? Please H4994 do not hide it from me. May God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the words that He spoke to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:3

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Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. So Kish said to his son Saul, “Take now H4994 with you one of the young men, and arise, go search for the donkeys.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6 - But he said to him, “Behold now H4994, there is a man of God in this city, and the man is held in honor; all that he says surely comes true. Now let us go there, perhaps he can tell us about our journey on which we have gone.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:18 - Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, “Please H4994 tell me where the seer’s house is.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:15 - And Saul’s uncle said, “Please H4994 tell me what Samuel said to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:17 - So Saul said to the people who were with him, “[fn]Number now H4994 and see who has gone from us.” And when they had [fn]numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:29 - Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. See now H4994, how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:25 - “So now, please H4994 forgive my sin and return with me, that I may worship Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:30 - Then he said, “I have sinned; but please H4994 honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:15 - Saul’s servants then said to him, “Behold now H4994, an evil spirit from God is terrorizing you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:16 - “Let our lord now H4994 speak to your servants who are before you. Let them seek a man who is a skillful musician on the harp; and it shall be that when the evil spirit from God is on you, he shall play the harp with his hand, and you will be well.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:17 - So Saul said to his servants, “Provide for me now H4994 a man who can play well and bring him to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:22 - So Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Let David now H4994 stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight.”

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Then Jesse said to David his son, “Take now H4994 for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves and run to the camp to your brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:2 - So Jonathan told David saying, “Saul my father is seeking to put you to death. So now, please H4994 be careful in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29 - and he said, ‘Please H4994 send me on my way, since our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to attend. So now, if I have found favor in your sight, please H4994 let me get away that I may see my brothers.’ For this reason he has not come to the king’s table.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:36 - And he said to his young man, “Run, find now H4994 the arrows which I am about to shoot.” As the young man was running, he shot [fn]an arrow past him.

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And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please H4994 let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:7 - And Saul said to his servants who were standing around him, “Hear now H4994, O Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse also give to all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?

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