Strong's #994: biy (pronounced bee)

perhaps from 1158 (in the sense of asking); properly, a request; used only adverbially (always with "my Lord"); Oh that!; with leave, or if it please:--alas, O, oh.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bı̂y

1) if it please, pray excuse me, excuse me please

1a) used to introduce an entreaty or request

Part of Speech: particle of entreaty

Relation: perhaps from H1158 (sense of asking)

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Genesis 43:20: "And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:"
Genesis 44:18: "unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak"
Exodus 4:10: "unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent,"
Exodus 4:13: "And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send."
Numbers 12:11: "unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not"
Joshua 7:8: " O what shall I say, when Israel turneth"
Judges 6:13: "And Gideon unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with"
Judges 6:15: "And he said him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel?"
Judges 13:8: "the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God"
1 Samuel 1:26: "And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman"
1 Kings 3:17: "And the one said, O my lord, I and this woman"
1 Kings 3:26: "upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living"