נָא na

Hebrew word for “please” · Strong’s H4994 · used 404 times in 375 verses

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Meaning

1) I (we) pray, now, please; 1a) used in entreaty or exhortation

How it is translated

Glosses given for na in context, with how often each is used:

• please 404

Where it is used

Also in 18 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

2 Samuel 13 (9), Genesis 24 (8), Genesis 18 (7), 2 Samuel 14 (7), Genesis 19 (6), Genesis 27 (6), Judges 19 (6), 2 Kings 2 (6), 1 Kings 20 (5), 2 Kings 4 (5)

Forms

• נא 404

Words used with it

Words that share verses with na more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עַתָּה attah “now” 47
• זֶה zeh “this” 56
• נִי ni “me” 51
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 57
• הִנֵּה hinneh “behold” 48
• עֶבֶד eved “servant/slave” 43
• אַל al “not” 40
• דָבַר davar “to speak” 46
• עַיִן ayin “eye” 41
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 44
• אִם im “if” 42
• יָדַע yada “to know” 39

Key verses

The verses using na that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Numbers 12:6 — And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
• 2 Samuel 13:28 — Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear…
• 2 Kings 20:3 — I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And…
• Isaiah 1:18 — Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they…
• Jeremiah 4:31 — For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that…
• Jeremiah 38:4 — Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this…
• Lamentations 1:18 — The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone…
• Daniel 9:16 — O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for…
• Micah 3:1 — And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
• Micah 6:5 — O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the…
• Zechariah 1:4 — Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil…
• Malachi 3:10 — Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.