TBESH · H4616
מַ֫עַן · ma.an · because
1) purpose, intent prep 1a) for the sake of 1b) in view of, on account of 1c) for the purpose of, to the intent that, in order to conj 1d) to the end that
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ma.an H4616
מַ֫עַן (ma.an) means “because” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
מַ֫עַן Hebrew · H4616 272 tagged occurrences in 252 verses
Pronunciation guide: mah'-an Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H6030 (עָנָה); properly, heed, i.e. purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
KJV glosses: because of, to the end (intent) that, for (to,... 's sake), [phrase] lest, that, to.
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How translators render H4616
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 |
|---|---|
| so that | 89 |
| that | 21 |
| for the sake | 18 |
| to | 18 |
| because of | 12 |
| in order to | 9 |
| for the sake of | 7 |
| so | 7 |
| and so that | 5 |
| for your sake | 5 |
| and that | 4 |
| for my own sake | 4 |
| in order that | 4 |
| then | 4 |
| and for the sake | 3 |
| for | 3 |
| in order | 3 |
| in this way | 3 |
| on account of | 3 |
| and for the sake of | 2 |
| sake | 2 |
| therefore | 2 |
| and | 1 |
| and pressed | 1 |
| and so | 1 |
| as a result | 1 |
| because | 1 |
| bent on | 1 |
| for my sake | 1 |
| for this reason | 1 |
| he did this | 1 |
| he did this so that | 1 |
| him | 1 |
| my very own sake | 1 |
| on account of you | 1 |
| on behalf | 1 |
| on your account | 1 |
| so that they | 1 |
| so that you | 1 |
| that my heart | 1 |
| that will serve | 1 |
| the israelites to | 1 |
| they spite | 1 |
| this happened so that | 1 |
| this is so that | 1 |
| this was in order to | 1 |
| until | 1 |
| vvv | 1 |
| yet for the sake | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| for | 2 |
| that | 2 |
| against us for to | 1 |
| lest | 1 |
| thee for to the intent | 1 |
| there to the end | 1 |
| to | 1 |
| unto them because of | 1 |
Verses containing H4616
Page 2 of 6. 252 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Deuteronomy 12:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 13:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 13.18
- Deuteronomy 14:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 14:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 16:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 16:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 17:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 17:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 17:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 20:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 22:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 23:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 23.21
- Deuteronomy 24:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 25:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 27:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 29:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.5
- Deuteronomy 29:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.8
- Deuteronomy 29:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.12
- Deuteronomy 29:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.18
- Deuteronomy 30:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 30:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 31:12
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 31:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now therefore, write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites; have them recite it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them.
Read word by word - Joshua 1:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go.
Read word by word - Joshua 1:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
Read word by word - Joshua 3:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”
Read word by word - Joshua 4:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
Read word by word - Joshua 4:24
· BSB · 2 occurrences
He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.”
Read word by word - Joshua 11:20
· BSB · 2 occurrences
For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Read word by word - Judges 2:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”
Read word by word - Judges 3:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 15:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 17:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 2:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 2:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
so that they may fear You all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:41
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:60
· BSB · 1 occurrence
so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no other!
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:13
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:32
· BSB · 2 occurrences
But one tribe will remain for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:36
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:39
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Because of this, I will humble David’s descendants—but not forever.’”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 12:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 15:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 8:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet for the sake of His servant David, the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 10:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now, therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. See that no one is missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.
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