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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 35 times in 33 verses in '2Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

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So the king again sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty men. When the third captain of fifty went up, he came and bowed down on his knees before Elijah, and begged him and said to him, “You man of God, please H4994 let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:2 - And Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here please H4994, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

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And Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please H4994 stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:6 - And Elijah said to him, “Please H4994 stay here, for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan.” But he said, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.

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When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask me what I should do for you before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please H4994 let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:16 - Then they said to him, “Behold now H4994, there are with your servants fifty strong men; please H4994 let them go and search for your master, in case the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and cast him on some mountain or into some valley.” But he said, “You shall not send anyone.”

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Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold now, the site of the city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad and the land [fn]is unfruitful.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:9 - And she said to her husband, “Behold now H4994, I am aware that this is a holy man of God passing by us repeatedly.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:10 - “Please H4994, let’s make a little walled upper room, and let’s set up a bed for him there, and a table, a chair, and a lampstand; then it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:13 - And he said to him, “Say now H4994 to her, ‘Behold, you have taken trouble for us with all this [fn]care; what can I do for you? [fn]Would you like me to speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army?’” But she [fn]answered, “I live among my own people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:22 - Then she called to her husband and said, “Please H4994 send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so that I may run to the man of God and return.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:26 - “Please H4994 run now to meet her and say to her, ‘Is it going well for you? Is it going well for your husband? Is it going well for the child?’” Then she [fn]answered, “It is going well.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - But when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to keep alive, that this man is sending word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? But consider now H4994, and see how he is seeking [fn]a quarrel against me.”

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Now it happened, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent word to the king, saying, “Why did you tear your clothes? Just H4994 have him come to me, and he shall learn that there is a prophet in Israel.”

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Then he returned to the man of God [fn]with all his company, and came and stood before him. And he said, “Behold now H4994, I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel; so please H4994 accept a [fn]gift from your servant now.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:17 - Then Naaman said, “If not, please H4994 let your servant be given two mules’ load of earth; for your servant will no longer offer a burnt offering nor a sacrifice to other gods, but to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:18 - “Regarding this matter may the LORD forgive your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand and I bow down in the house of Rimmon, when I bow down in the house of Rimmon, may the LORD please H4994 forgive your servant in this matter.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:22 - And he said, “Everything is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please H4994 give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.’”

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Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Behold now H4994, the place [fn]before you where we are living is too cramped for us.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:2 - “Please H4994 let us go to the Jordan, and let us each take from there a beam, and let us construct a place there for ourselves, to live there.” So he said, “Go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:3 - Then one of them said, “Please H4994 agree and go with your servants.” And he said, “I will go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:17 - Then Elisha prayed and said, “LORD, please H4994, open his eyes so that he may see.” And the LORD opened the servant’s eyes, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:18 - And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, “Please H4994 strike this [fn]people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness in accordance with the word of Elisha.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “I will now H4994 tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; so they have left the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13 - One of his servants responded and said, “Please H4994, have some men take five of the horses that remain, which are left [fn]in the city. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they will be like all the multitude of Israel who have already perished, so let us send them and see.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:4 - Now the king was speaking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please H4994 report to me all the great things that Elisha has done.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:12 - And they said, “It is a lie; tell us now H4994.” And he said, “Such and such he said to me, saying, ‘This is what the LORD says: “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:34 - When he came in, he ate and drank; and he said, “See now H4994 to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:19

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And Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now H4994 to Hezekiah, ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria says: “What is this confidence that you [fn]have?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:23 - “Now then, [fn]come H4994 make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them!

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Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now H4994 to your servants in Aramaic, because we [fn]understand it; and do not speak with us in [fn]Judean [fn]so that the people who are on the wall hear you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:19 - “But now, LORD our God, please H4994, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, LORD, are God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:3 - “Please, LORD, just H4994 remember how I have walked before You wholeheartedly and in truth, and have done what is good in Your sight!” And Hezekiah wept [fn]profusely.
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