495 occurrences in 13 translations

'Please' in the Bible

Please say you’re my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.”

Verse ConceptsExamples Of Deceitdoubt, results ofNot DyingMisrepresentationsisterhood

Then Abram said to Lot, “Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And VictoryLove Between RelativesConflictFamily ConflictResolving Conflict

Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right; or if to the right, then I will go to the left.”

Verse ConceptsPeople PartingTurning To Right And Left

So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Verse ConceptsBarrennessSleep, PhysicalDivine RestraintsReasons For BarrennessChildren Are A BlessingGod HinderingSexual Union IntendedObeying Peoplesarah

But Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your maid is entirely in your hands and subject to your authority; do as you please with her.” So Sarai treated her harshly and humiliated her, and Hagar fled from her.

Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfMastersOppression, Nature OfSuffering, Causes OfEmployers, Bad ExamplesGiven Into One's HandsLeaving People Alonemistress

Then he said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, please do not go on past your servant.

Verse ConceptsCourteousnessPassing ByFavor

And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if thirty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not do [it] if I find thirty there."

Verse ConceptsThirtyLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To God

And he said, "Please, now, I was bold to speak to my Lord. What if twenty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] for the sake of the twenty."

Verse ConceptsTwentyNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To God

And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak only once more. What if ten are found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] for the sake of the ten."

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfTen PeopleLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To GodWorth

and said, "Look, my lords! Please come inside your servant's house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and be on your way." But they responded, "No, we would rather spend the night in the town square."

Verse ConceptsFoot washingGuestsMorningServanthood, In SocietySalutationsHospitalityFeet WashingTravellersCity SquaresClean FeetThose Who Rose EarlyCare Of FeetStaying Temporarily

and said, “Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.

Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.”

Verse ConceptsdaughtersRooftopVirginTwo WomenLeaving People AloneNever Giving UpFather And Daughter RelationshipsProtecting Your FamilyFathers And Daughters

But Lot said to them, “No, my lords—please.

Look, this town is close enough for me to run to. It is a small place. Please let me go there—it’s only a small place, isn’t it?—so that I can survive.”

Verse ConceptsSmallnessSmall ThingsKeeping Oneself AliveOthers Who Fled

and said, "Look! My land is available to you, so settle wherever you please."

Verse ConceptsLiving In The Land

God said, "Please take your son, your unique son whom you love Isaac and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him as a burnt offering there on one of the mountains that I will point out to you."

Verse ConceptsCalvaryAbrahamAtonement, Types OfLove, And The WorldSuffering, Of Jesus ChristWorship, Acceptable AttitudesWorship, Places OfThe Only ChildSacrificing The FirstbornOnly Child Of PeopleThose Who Loved

and said to Ephron in the presence of the people of the land, “Please listen to me. Let me pay the price of the field. Accept it from me, and let me bury my dead there.”

Verse ConceptsThe Cave Of MachpelahIn Men's Presence

Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he owned, “Please place your hand under my thigh,

Verse ConceptsThighsinvesting

That's when he prayed, "LORD God of my master Abraham, help me to succeed today. Please show your gracious love to my master Abraham.

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersGrace, In OtAdventureSuccess Through GodguidanceHaving A Good Day

Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

Verse ConceptsDrinksWater ContainersRequesting FoodMan Providing WaterSeeking A SignGod Appointing OthersGiving In Marriage

Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”

Verse ConceptsWater ContainersIndividuals RunningRequesting FoodMan Providing Water

“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

Verse ConceptsWho Is This?Staying TemporarilyFathers And Daughters

Then today I came to the spring, and I said, 'O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, {if you would please make my journey successful}, upon which I am going.

Verse ConceptsSuccess Through Godspringtime

I am standing here at a spring. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, and I say to her: Please let me drink a little water from your jug,

Verse ConceptsWater ContainersDrawing WaterMan Providing Water

“Before I had finished praying silently, there was Rebekah coming with her jug on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her: Please let me have a drink.

Verse ConceptsShouldersHeart, And Holy SpiritWater ContainersRequesting FoodDrawing WaterMan Providing WaterWhile Still SpeakingUnder One's BreathCarrying Other LoadsHeartfelt Prayer To God

"Please don't delay me," the servant answered them. "The LORD has made my journey successful. Send me off so I can return to my master."

Verse ConceptsDo Not HinderPeople Sending PeopleSuccess Through God

and Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

Verse ConceptsYielding To TemptationRequesting FoodRed BodiesPeople With Apt Names

Now then, please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Uses OfArrows, Uses OfHuntingQuiversArchers, MenArrowsDeergames

Jacob replied to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may bless me.”

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitFirstbornInheritance, MaterialFirstborn SonsThis Is MePeople Blessing

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau or not?”

Verse ConceptsDistinguishingIs It Really?Contact With People

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come closer and kiss me, my son.”

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingContact With People

Esau realized that Canaan women didn't please his father Isaac,

Verse ConceptsSeeing SituationsTroubling Individualshumor

Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother Leah, Rachel asked, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

Verse ConceptsWheat

Then Laban responded, "If I've found favor in your sight, please stay with me, because I've learned through divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.

Verse ConceptsLearningBlessing Through God's People

Then Rachel told her father, "Sir, please don't be angry that I cannot stand up in your presence. It's that time of the month." So Laban searched for the idols, but never did find them.

Verse ConceptsMenstruationBleedingSeeking For Concrete ThingsNot FindingNot Able To Get Upwomanhood

Please rescue me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.

Verse ConceptsRest, PhysicalKilling Whole FamiliesFear Of IndividualsPeople Attacking Their OwnMotherhood

Then Jacob asked Him, “Please tell me Your name.”But He answered, “Why do you ask My name?” And He blessed him there.

Verse ConceptsWhy Do You Do This?What Is God's Name?Blessed By God

But Jacob said, “No, please! If I have found favor with you, take this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing God’s face, since you have accepted me.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesSmiling

Please take my present that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have everything I need.” So Jacob urged him until he accepted.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceBlessed By God

Please let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will proceed at my leisure, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

Verse ConceptsSlownessPeople Going Before

Esau said, “Let me leave some of my people with you.”But he replied, “Why do that? Please indulge me, my lord.”

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

Hamor said to Jacob’s sons, “My son Shechem is strongly attracted to your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

Verse ConceptsMen And Women Who LovedGiving In Marriagehumor

He said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have had;

Verse Conceptsvulnerability

He said, “I am looking for my brothers; please tell me where they are pasturing the flock.”

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?

and they sent the varicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, “We found this; please examine it to see whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

Verse ConceptsMulti ColouredDistinguishingFinding ThingsColor

And he turned aside to her at the roadside and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she [was] his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What will you give to me that you may come in to me?"

Verse ConceptsDaughters In LawNot Recognising PeopleWages Of A Prostitute

It was while she was being brought out that she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man to whom these things belong.” And she said, “Please examine and see, whose signet ring and cords and staff are these?”

Verse ConceptsSealsConceptionCordsWho Is The One?

"We had a dream," they replied, "but there's no one to interpret it." "Interpretations belong to God," Joseph told them, "so please tell me your stories."

Verse ConceptsDreamsNo One AvailableTelling Dreams

But when all goes well for you, remember that I was with you. Please show kindness to me by mentioning me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison.

Verse ConceptsRemembering PeoplePeople Releasing Othersjail

"But your majesty," they pleaded, "your servants include twelve brothers, the sons of a common father back in the land of Canaan. Please! Our youngest brother remains with our father, and the other one is no longer alive."

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildIndividuals Passing AwayTwelve BeingsPassing Awayvulnerability

And they said, "Please, my lord, we surely came down once before to buy food,

Verse ConceptsBuying Food

But Judah approached him and said, “Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsEquivalent People

Now please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers.

Verse ConceptsVicarious SubstitutionHalf brothers

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please, come near me,” and they came near. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt.

Verse ConceptsThis Is MeIdentity

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a while because there is no grazing land for your servants’ sheep, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.”

Verse ConceptsSojourningNo FoodLiving In The Land

As the time approached for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and addressed him. "Please," he asked, "if you're happy with me, make a solemn promise that you'll treat me fairly and kindly by not burying me in Egypt.

Verse ConceptsKindnessLoyaltyA Time To DieThighsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenImmigrants

"These are my sons," Joseph replied. "God gave them to me here in Egypt." "Please bring them close to me," Jacob said, "so I can bless them."

Verse ConceptsChildren, attitudes towardsSanctity Of LifeChildren, A Gift From GodPeople Who Blessed Others

When the days of mourning were over, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s household, “If I have found favor with you, please tell Pharaoh that

"My father told me, "Look! I'm about to die. Bury me in my grave that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan." So please let me travel to bury my father. I'll be right back.'"

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenThe Cave Of Machpelah

"Please go," Pharaoh replied. "Bury your father, as he asked you to do."

‘Say this to Joseph: Please forgive your brothers’ transgression and their sin—the suffering they caused you.’ Therefore, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when their message came to him.

Verse ConceptsAsking for forgivenessAskingForgive One AnotherWronging Other PeopleGod's ForgivenessLove And Forgivenessforgivingdisobedience

They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessPaying Attention To People

But Moses replied to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent—either in the past or recently or since You have been speaking to Your servant—because I am slow and hesitant in speech.”

Verse ConceptsExcusesEloquenceMoses, Significance OfMutenessHumility, Examples OfSelf AbasementSpeech ImpedimentsNervousnessSpeech

Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still living.”Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsReturning to their landLiving OnBrothers in lawgirlfriends

Then they answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God, or else He may strike us with plague or sword.”

Verse ConceptsSwordsThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessGod Might Kill His People

Please forgive my sin once more and make an appeal to Yahweh your God, so that He will take this death away from me.”

Verse ConceptsNot DyingDeath PreventedForgive One AnotherPray For UsPraying For SinnersForgiveness

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeLaws Restricting ForeignersNot Pleasing PeopleUnfaithful

Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Please, LORD, this people committed a great sin by making a god of gold for themselves.

Verse ConceptsGoldGod's People Sinning

Now if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, please teach me Your ways, and I will know You and find favor in Your sight. Now consider that this nation is Your people.”

Verse ConceptsKnowing God's WaysNationalism

Then he said, “My Lord, if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Even though this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wrongdoing and sin, and accept us as Your own possession.”

Verse ConceptsPrayer, For OthersStiffnecked PeopleNecksSelf WillGod Goes With YouGod Forgive!

Please don’t leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.

Verse ConceptsIsrael In The WildernessPeople Not AbandoningCamping During The ExodusPeople With General Knowledgeguidance

If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don’t let me see my misery anymore.”

Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceUniversality Of DeathDepression, SymptomsUnwise PrayersApproval To Kill Oneself

and said to Moses, “My lord, please don’t hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsFolly, Effects OfConfession, Examples OfAaron, Character

Please don’t let her be like a dead baby whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

Verse ConceptsAbortionCondition Of The Body

But now, please, let the power of my Lord be great, just has you spoke,

Please pardon the wrongdoing of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your faithful love, just as You have forgiven them from Egypt until now.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod Forgive!Love And Forgivenessgreatness

And Moses said to Korah, "Please listen, sons of Levi!

Moses was very angry, so he told the LORD, "Please don't accept their offering. I haven't taken even one donkey from them nor have I hurt even one of them."

Verse ConceptsIntegrityFraudAnger, HumanAnger, Justified ExamplesLoss Of DonkeysNamed People Angry With OthersRespectHurthurting

He said to the community, saying, "Please turn away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything {that belongs to them}, or you will be destroyed with all their sins."

Verse ConceptsTentsFellowship With WickedEvil AssociationsSeparation From Evil PeopleNot TouchingHaving No Dealings

and Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly to the presence of the rock, and he said to them, "Please listen, you rebels; can we bring out water for you from this rock?"

Verse ConceptsImpatienceAbuse, Of Spiritual ThingsAnger, Sinful ExamplesAssembling Israel

Please let us travel through your land. We won’t travel through any field or vineyard, or drink any well water. We will travel the King’s Highway; we won’t turn to the right or the left until we have traveled through your territory.’”

Verse ConceptsHighwayPassing ThroughRoadsVineyardWellsNot Turning AsideMan Providing Water

Then the Israelis replied, "Permit us to travel on the highway. If we and our cattle drink your water, we'll pay the price you ask. Only please let us walk through, and nothing more."

Verse ConceptsHighwayMan Providing WaterPaying For Goods

Please come and put a curse on these people for me because they are more powerful than I am. I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that those you bless are blessed and those you curse are cursed.”

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyInvitationsSorcery And MagicCursing IsraelPeople Blessing

And they came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak son of Zippor: 'Please do not let anything hinder you from coming to me.

Verse ConceptsAvoid Being Hindered

for I will greatly honor you and do whatever you ask me. So please come and put a curse on these people for me!’”

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyCursing Israel

Please stay here overnight as the others did, so that I may find out what else the Lord has to tell me.”

Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp; you won’t see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me.”

Verse ConceptsSubdivisionsCursing Israel

And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

Verse ConceptsAmbiguityCursing Israel

This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry whom they please; only they shall marry one of the tribe of their father,

Verse ConceptsLimitednessFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughters

Please let me cross over and see the beautiful land on the other side of the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.

Verse ConceptsBeyond Jordan

"Yes, ask, please, about former days that {preceded you} from the day that God created humankind on the earth; [ask even] from [one] end of the heaven up to the [other] end of heaven {whether anything ever happened} like this great thing or {whether anything like it was ever heard}.

Verse ConceptsCreation Of All MankindMan's Relation To GodEnd Of Days

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Verse ConceptsKilling Domesticated AnimalsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Animals Having A SoulDeerEating Meat

When the LORD your God enlarges your territory just as he told you and you say "I want to eat meat' since you desire to eat it, you may do so as much as you please.

Verse ConceptsFood DefinedEating Meat

Bible Theasaurus

Bewitch (1 instance)
Captivate (4 instances)
Delight (265 instances)
Enchant (1 instance)
Enrapture (1 instance)
Entrance (223 instances)
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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מחמד 
Machmad 
Usage: 12

עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

ἀρεστός 
Arestos 
Usage: 3

אוּה 
'avvah 
Usage: 7

חמד 
Chamad 
Usage: 30

חמד 
Chemed 
Usage: 6

חמדּה 
Chemdah 
Usage: 16

חן 
Chen 
Usage: 69

חפץ 
Chaphets 
delight , please , desire , will , pleasure , favour , like , moveth , would , at all
Usage: 76

חפץ 
Chaphets 
Usage: 10

חפץ 
Chephets 
Usage: 39

חשׁק 
Chesheq 
Usage: 3

טוב 
Towb 
Usage: 31

יאל 
Ya'al 
Usage: 18

יטב 
Yatab 
Usage: 115

יפה 
Yapheh 
Usage: 41

ישׁר 
Yashar 
Usage: 26

מגד 
meged 
Usage: 8

מחמוּד מחמדo 
Machmud 
Usage: 2

נוה נוה 
Naveh 
Usage: 35

נעים 
Na`iym 
Usage: 13

נעם 
Na`em 
Usage: 8

נעם 
No`am 
Usage: 7

נעמן 
Na`aman 
Usage: 1

שׂפק ספק 
Caphaq 
Usage: 10

עדין 
`adiyn 
Usage: 1

עדנה עדן 
`eden 
Usage: 4

ענג 
`oneg 
Usage: 2

ערב 
`areb 
Usage: 12

צבי 
Ts@biy 
Usage: 32

רעוּת 
R@uwth (Aramaic) 
pleasure , will
Usage: 2

רצה 
Ratsah 
Usage: 56

רצן רצון 
Ratsown 
Usage: 56

שׁעשׁע 
Sha`shua` 
Usage: 9

שׁפר 
Sh@phar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

תּאוה 
Ta'avah 
Usage: 20

תּענגה תּענג תּענוּג 
Ta`anuwg 
Usage: 5

ἀπόλαυσις 
Apolausis 
to enjoy 9, enjoy the pleasures 9
Usage: 2

ἀρέσκεια 
Areskeia 
Usage: 1

ἀρέσκω 
Aresko 
Usage: 17

δοκέω 
Dokeo 
Usage: 45

εὐαρεστέω 
Euaresteo 
Usage: 3

εὐάρεστος 
Euarestos 
Usage: 9

εὐδοκέω 
Eudokeo 
Usage: 20

εὐδοκία 
Eudokia 
good pleasure , good will , seem good 9 , desire
Usage: 7

ἡδονή 
hedone 
Usage: 4

θέλημα 
thelema 
will , desire , pleasure
Usage: 45

σπαταλάω 
Spatalao 
live in pleasure , be wanton
Usage: 2

συνευδοκέω 
suneudokeo 
Usage: 5

τρυφάω 
Truphao 
Usage: 1

φιλήδονος 
Philedonos 
Usage: 1

χάρις 
Charis 
Usage: 151

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