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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 403 times in 374 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 8 (Gen 12:11–Gen 37:16)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:13 - So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:9 - Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I'll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I'll go to the left."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, "Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - The LORD took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars - if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - So Sarai said to Abram, "Since the LORD has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her." Abram did what Sarai told him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:3 - He said, "My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:4 - Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:21 - that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:27 - Then Abraham asked, "Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30 - Then Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?" He replied, "I will not do it if I find thirty there."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - Abraham said, "Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?" He replied, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - Finally Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He replied, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - He said, "Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant's house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning." "No," they replied, "we'll spend the night in the town square."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:7 - He said, "No, my brothers! Don't act so wickedly!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:18 - But Lot said to them, "No, please, Lord!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:19 - Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I'll die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it's just a little one. Let me go there. It's just a little place, isn't it? Then I'll survive."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:2 - God said, "Take your son - your only son, whom you love, Isaac - and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:2 - Abraham said to his servant, the senior one in his household who was in charge of everything he had, "Put your hand under my thigh

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:12 - He prayed, "O LORD, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - I will say to a young woman, 'Please lower your jar so I may drink.' May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, 'Drink, and I'll give your camels water too.' In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:17 - Abraham's servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a sip of water from your jug."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:23 - "Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "Tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:42 - When I came to the spring today, I prayed, 'O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, may events unfold as follows:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I'll say, "Give me a little water to drink from your jug."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:45 - "Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - So Esau said to Jacob, "Feed me some of the red stuff - yes, this red stuff - because I'm starving!" (That is why he was also called Edom.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28 - They replied, "We could plainly see that the LORD is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us - between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:2 - Isaac said, "Since I am so old, I could die at any time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:3 - Therefore, take your weapons - your quiver and your bow - and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:9 - Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I'll prepare them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I've done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:26 - Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come here and kiss me, my son."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Give me some of your son's mandrakes."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:27 - But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me on account of you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - Then he said, 'Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:29 - Then Jacob asked, "Please tell me your name." "Why do you ask my name?" the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:10 - "No, please take them," Jacob said. "If I have found favor in your sight, accept my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, it is as if I have seen the face of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:11 - Please take my present that was brought to you, for God has been generous to me and I have all I need." When Jacob urged him, he took it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14 - Let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the herds and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:15 - So Esau said, "Let me leave some of my men with you." "Why do that?" Jacob replied. "My lord has already been kind enough to me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:8 - But Hamor made this appeal to them: "My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:6 - He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - So Jacob said to him, "Go now and check on the welfare of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word." So Jacob sent him from the valley of Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:16 - He replied, "I'm looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks."

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