Hebrew part · H994
בִּי
bibee
please
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H994is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H994
oh that!; with leave, or if it please
The King James renders it: alas, O, oh.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
bi is rendered "please". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 43:20“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.
Genesis 43:20בִּ֣י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- pardon me11
- pardon us1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בִּ֣י11
- בִּ֖י1
The grammar of each form
- interjection12HTj
Genesis
two uses
“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.
- בִּ֣יbiinterjectiontagged: pardon us
Then Judah approached Joseph and said, “Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh himself.
- בִּ֣יbiinterjectiontagged: pardon me
Exodus
two uses
“Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”
- בִּ֣יbiinterjectiontagged: pardon me
But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
- בִּ֣יbiinterjectiontagged: pardon me
Numbers
one use
and said to Moses, “My lord, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.
- בִּ֣יbiinterjectiontagged: pardon me
Joshua
one use
O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
- בִּ֖יbiinterjectiontagged: pardon me
Judges
three uses
“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
- בִּ֣יbiinterjectiontagged: pardon me
“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
- בִּ֣יbiinterjectiontagged: pardon me
Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
- בִּ֣יbiinterjectiontagged: pardon me
1 Samuel
one use
“Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
- בִּ֣יbiinterjectiontagged: pardon me
1 Kings
two uses
One woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house.
- בִּ֣יbiinterjectiontagged: pardon me
Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
- בִּ֣יbiinterjectiontagged: pardon me
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.