בִּי
bi
“please”
Definition
oh that!; with leave, or if it please
perhaps from H1158 (בָּעָה) (in the sense of asking); properly, a request; used only adverbially (always with 'my Lord');
- if it please, pray excuse me, excuse me please 1a) used to introduce an entreaty or request
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Part
H:Part
H:Part
Occurrences
בִּי appears 12 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
“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.
But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
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.
“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.”
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