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Strong's #4994: na' (pronounced 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.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nâ'

1) I (we) pray, now, please

1a) used in entreaty or exhortation

Part of Speech: participle

Relation: a primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered: "I pray," "now," or "then"



Usage:

This word is used 403 times:

2 Kings 4:26: "Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband?"
2 Kings 5:7: "of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how"
2 Kings 5:8: "hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is"
2 Kings 5:15: "before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God"
2 Kings 5:15: "but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of"
2 Kings 5:17: "And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules'"
2 Kings 5:22: "two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent"
2 Kings 6:1: "unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we"
2 Kings 6:2: "Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man"
2 Kings 6:3: "And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered,"
2 Kings 6:17: "prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see."
2 Kings 6:18: "this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word"
2 Kings 7:12: "and said unto his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians"
2 Kings 7:13: "of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses"
2 Kings 8:4: "of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that"
2 Kings 9:12: "And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spoke"
2 Kings 9:34: "and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury"
2 Kings 18:19: "said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith"
2 Kings 18:23: "Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver"
2 Kings 18:26: "unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for"
2 Kings 19:19: "Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all"
2 Kings 20:3: "I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before"
1 Chronicles 21:8: "this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant;"
1 Chronicles 21:13: "Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for"
1 Chronicles 21:17: "sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be"
1 Chronicles 22:5: "and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly"
1 Chronicles 29:20: "said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God."
2 Chronicles 6:40: "Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent"
2 Chronicles 18:4: "the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD today."
2 Chronicles 18:12: "with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak"
Ezra 10:14: " Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken"
Nehemiah 1:6: "Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear"
Nehemiah 1:8: "Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant"
Nehemiah 1:11: "O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer"
Nehemiah 1:11: "thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy"
Nehemiah 5:10: "might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury."
Nehemiah 5:11: "Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth"
Job 1:11: "But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and"
Job 2:5: "But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh,"
Job 4:7: "Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?"
Job 5:1: "Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints"
Job 6:29: "Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness"
Job 8:8: "For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:"
Job 10:9: "Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?"
Job 12:7: "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell"
Job 13:6: "Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips."
Job 13:18: "Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified."
Job 17:3: "Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands"
Job 17:10: "as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise"
Job 22:21: "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come"









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