# H994 בִּי

בִּי (bîy), Strong’s H994: oh that!; with leave, or if it please KJV: alas, O, oh.. Occurs 12 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H994 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*bîy* — oh that!; with leave, or if it please

KJV: alas, O, oh.

Derived from [בָּעָה bâʻâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H1158) (to gush over, i.e. to swell)

Occurs 12 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בִּי part. of entreaty, craving permission to address a superior, I pray, excuse me

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 43:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=20) — and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.
- [Genesis 44:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=18) — Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t…
- [Exodus 4:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=10) — Moses said to the LORD, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for…
- [Exodus 4:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=13) — Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”
- [Numbers 12:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/12?v=11) — Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in…
- [Joshua 7:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=8) — Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?
- [Judges 6:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=13) — Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his…
- [Judges 6:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=15) — He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in…
- [Judges 13:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/13?v=8) — Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and…
- [1 Samuel 1:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/1?v=26) — She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the LORD.