bi · please, my lord

What it means

bi (בִּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “please, my lord”.

Please, pardon me: a formula for addressing a superior respectfully.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. "By your leave", when addressing someone respectfully.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Pardon ×6
• Please ×5
• Oh ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×2
• Numbers×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2

• Genesis 43:20

  and said, “Please, my lord, we did indeed come down the first time to buy food.

• Genesis 44:18

  Then Judah approached him and said, “Please, my lord, let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and do not let your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.

• Exodus 4:10

  Moses said to YHWH, “Please, Adonai, I have never been a man of words, either in the past or before that or since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of mouth and slow of tongue.”

• Exodus 4:13

  But he said, “Please, Adonai, send, I pray, by the hand of whomever you will send.”

• Numbers 12:11

  And Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please do not lay on us the sin in which we have acted foolishly and in which we have sinned.

• Joshua 7:8

  Please, Adonai, what can I say, after Israel has turned its back before its enemies?

• Judges 6:13

  Gideon said to him, “Pardon, my lord, if YHWH is with us, why has all this found us? And where are all his wonders that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not YHWH bring us up from Egypt?’ But now YHWH has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

• Judges 6:15

  He said to him, “Pardon, Adonai, with what shall I save Israel? Look, my thousand is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in the house of my father.”

• Judges 13:8

  Then Manoah pleaded with YHWH and said, “Pardon, Adonai, let the man of Elohim whom you sent come again, please, to us and teach us what we should do for the boy who will be born.”

• 1 Samuel 1:26

  And she said, “Pardon me, my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood here with you to pray to YHWH.

• 1 Kings 3:17

  And the one woman said, “Pardon me, my lord: I and this woman live in one house, and I gave birth with her present in the house.

• 1 Kings 3:26

  Then the woman whose son was the living one said to the king, because her inner parts were stirred for her son, and she said, “Pardon me, my lord, give her the living newborn, and do not by any means put him to death!” But this one said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; cut him!”