TBESH · H3282
יַעַן · ya.an · because
conj 1) because, therefore, because that, on account of prep 2) because of, on account of 3) why (with interrogative pron)
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ya.an H3282
יַעַן (ya.an) means “because” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
יַעַן Hebrew · H3282 99 tagged occurrences in 94 verses
Pronunciation guide: yah'-an Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from an unused root meaning to pay attention; properly, heed; by implication, purpose (sake or account); used adverbially to indicate the reason or cause
KJV glosses: because (that), forasmuch ([phrase] as), seeing then, [phrase] that, [phrase] wheras, [phrase] why.
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How translators render H3282
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| because | 73 |
| since | 7 |
| for | 6 |
| because of | 1 |
| even | 1 |
| is that why | 1 |
| so | 1 |
| therefore | 1 |
| why | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| because | 4 |
| forasmuch | 3 |
| forasmuch as | 2 |
| any more the like because | 1 |
| even because | 1 |
| for because | 1 |
| me because | 1 |
| seeing | 1 |
| that | 1 |
| unto you because | 1 |
| whereas | 1 |
Verses containing H3282
Page 1 of 2. 94 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 22:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
Read word by word - Leviticus 26:43
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For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
Read word by word - Numbers 11:20
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but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
Read word by word - Numbers 20:12
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But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 1:36
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except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”
Read word by word - Joshua 14:14
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Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
Read word by word - Judges 2:20
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So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 15:23
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For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 30:22
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but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 3:11
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So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies—but you have asked for discernment to administer justice—
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:18
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But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:11
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Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:33
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For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 13:21
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and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 14:7
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Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 14:13
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All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 14:15
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For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 16:2
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“Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 20:28
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Then the man of God approached the king of Israel and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because the Arameans have said that the LORD is a god of the hills and not of the valleys, I will deliver all this great army into your hand. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 20:36
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Then the prophet said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, as soon as you depart from me a lion will kill you.” And when he left, a lion found him and killed him.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 20:42
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And the prophet said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have let slip from your hand the man I had devoted to destruction, your life will be exchanged for his life, and your people for his people.’”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 21:20
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When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 21:29
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“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 1:16
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And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 10:30
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Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 19:28
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Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
Read word by word - 2 Kings 21:11
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“Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,
Read word by word - 2 Kings 21:15
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because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 22:19
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because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 1:11
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God said to Solomon, “Since this was in your heart instead of requesting riches or wealth or honor for yourself or death for your enemies—and since you have not even requested long life but have asked for wisdom and knowledge to govern My people over whom I have made you king—
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 6:8
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But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 34:27
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because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
Read word by word - Psalms 109:16
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For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.
Read word by word - Proverbs 1:24
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Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
Read word by word - Isaiah 3:16
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The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
Read word by word - Isaiah 7:5
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For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted your ruin, saying:
Read word by word - Isaiah 8:6
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“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
Read word by word - Isaiah 29:13
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Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
Read word by word - Isaiah 30:12
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Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
Read word by word - Isaiah 37:29
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Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
Read word by word - Isaiah 61:1
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The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
Read word by word - Isaiah 65:12
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I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 66:4
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So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 5:14
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Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 7:13
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And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
Read word by word - Jeremiah 19:4
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because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 23:38
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But if you claim, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ and I specifically told you not to make this claim,
Read word by word - Jeremiah 25:8
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Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
Read word by word - Jeremiah 29:23
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For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 29:25
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this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
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