Please!
אָֽנָּ֫אStrong’s H0577anna (an-na)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Anna is the Hebrew word usually translated “beg you” and “we beg you”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;”
Meaning
- Ah now! I/we beseech you, oh now!, pray now! (participle of entreaty usually followed by the imperative verb)
How it's translated
- i beg you 9
- we beg you 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Nehemiah 2
- Jonah 2
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- 2 Kings 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 50:17So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
- Exodus 32:31And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
- 2 Kings 20:3I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
- Nehemiah 1:5And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
- Nehemiah 1:11O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.
- Psalms 116:4Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Hebrew dictionary
אָֽנָּ֫א anna · Please!
ah now! I/we beseech you, oh now!, pray now! (participle of entreaty usually followed by the imperative verb)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “please” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLEASE, verb transitive
s as z. [Latin placere, placeo.]
- To excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to gratify; as, to please the taste; to please the mind.“Their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem, Hamor's son” Genesis 34:18
- To satisfy; to content.
- To prefer; to have satisfaction in; to like; to choose.“They that are in the flesh cannot please God” Romans 8:8
All definitions and other forms of “please”
PLEASE, verb intransitive
s as z. To like; to choose; to prefer.
- To condescend; to comply; to be pleased; a word of ceremony.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.