בִּי bîy

Hebrew · Strong's H994 · pronounced bee · used 12 times in 12 verses

Meaning

oh that!; with leave, or if it please

In the King James Version: alas, O, oh.

Derivation: perhaps from H1158 (בָּעָה) (in the sense of asking); properly, a request; used only adverbially (always with 'my Lord');

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Where it is used

Genesis 43:20 “Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.
Genesis 44:18 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.
Exodus 4:10 “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.”
Exodus 4:13 But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
Numbers 12:11 and said to Moses, “My lord, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.
Joshua 7:8 O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
Judges 6:13 “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.”
Judges 6:15 “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.”
Judges 13:8 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.”
1 Samuel 1:26 “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.
1 Kings 3:17 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.
1 Kings 3:26 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!”