H4616 Definition

Strong's number
H4616
Lemma
מַעַן
Transliteration
maʻan
Pronunciation
mah'-an
Strong's definition
properly, heed, i.e. purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that because of, to the end (intent) that, for (to,... 's sake), [phrase] lest, that, to. from H6030 (עָנָה);

252 instances of the word מַעַן maʻan (H4616)

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  • Joshua 1:7 - Only be thou strong courageous and very that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law commanded which Moses my servant thee turn not from it to the right hand or to the left that thou mayest prosper

  • Joshua 1:8 - shall not depart This book of the law out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written prosperous thy way and then thou shalt have good success

  • Obadiah 1:9 - shall be dismayed And thy mighty men O Teman may be cut off to the end that every one of the mount of Esau by slaughter

  • Exodus 1:11 - Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens And they built cities treasure for Pharaoh Pithom and Raamses

  • Amos 1:13 - Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of the children of Ammon and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead that they might enlarge their border

  • Habakkuk 2:2 - answered And the LORD me and said Write the vision and make it plain upon tables that he may run that readeth

  • 1 Kings 2:3 - And keep the charge of the LORD thy God in his ways And keep his statutes and his commandments and his judgments and his testimonies as it is written in the law of Moses that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest and whithersoever thou turnest

  • 1 Kings 2:4 - may continue That the LORD his word which he spake concerning me saying take heed If thy children to their way before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul concerning me saying there shall not fail he a man on the throne of Israel

  • Amos 2:7 - That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor the way of the meek and turn aside and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid to profane name my holy

  • Habakkuk 2:15 - Woe drink unto him that giveth his neighbour that puttest thy bottle to him and makest him drunken also that thou mayest look on their nakedness

  • Proverbs 2:20 - in the way of good the paths of the righteous men and keep

  • Judges 2:22 - That through them I may prove Israel did keep the way of the LORD did keep therein as their fathers

  • Deuteronomy 2:30 - would But Sihon king of Heshbon not let us pass hardened by him for the LORD thy God his spirit obstinate and made his heart that he might deliver him into thy hand as appeareth this day

  • Judges 3:2 - Only that knew the generations of the children of Israel to teach them war Only that at the least such as before knew

  • Joshua 3:4 - Yet there shall be a space between you and it about two thousand cubits by measure come not near unto it that ye may know the way for ye have not passed the way heretofore

  • Joel 3:6 - The children also of Judah The children of Jerusalem have ye sold The children unto the Grecians that ye might remove them far from their border

  • Deuteronomy 3:26 - was wroth But the LORD with me for your sakes and would not hear said But the LORD unto me Let it suffice no more thee speak unto me of this matter

  • Deuteronomy 4:1 - O Israel Now therefore hearken unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you for to do them that ye may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth

  • Exodus 4:5 - That they may believe hath appeared that the LORD God of their fathers God of Abraham God of Isaac God of Jacob

  • Joshua 4:6 - That this may be a sign among ask you that when your children their fathers in time to come saying What mean ye by these stones

  • Jeremiah 4:14 - wash from wickedness thine heart O Jerusalem that thou mayest be saved lodge within thoughts How long shall thy vain

  • Ezekiel 4:17 - That they may want bread and water and be astonied one with another and consume away for their iniquity

  • Joshua 4:24 - might know That all the people of the earth the hand of the LORD that it is mighty that ye might fear of the LORD your God for ever

  • Deuteronomy 4:40 - Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes and his commandments which I command thee this day that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee and that thou mayest prolong thee this day upon the earth which the LORD thy God giveth thee this day

  • Psalms 5:8 - me O LORD Lead in thy righteousness because of mine enemies straight before my face make thy way

  • Amos 5:14 - Seek good and not evil that ye may live and so the LORD the God of hosts shall be with you as ye have spoken

  • Deuteronomy 5:14 - day But the seventh is the sabbath of the LORD thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy manservant and thy maidservant nor thine ox nor thine ass nor any of thy cattle nor thy stranger that is within thy gates may rest nor thy manservant and thy maidservant

  • Deuteronomy 5:16 - Honour thy father and thy mother hath commanded as the LORD thy God may be prolonged thee that thy days and that it may go well with thee in the land as the LORD thy God giveth

  • Isaiah 5:19 - That say Let him make speed and hasten his work that we may see draw nigh and come it and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel that we may know

  • Deuteronomy 5:29 - an in them heart O that there were such that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always that it might be well with them and with their children for ever

  • Deuteronomy 5:33 - in all the ways hath commanded which the LORD your God you that ye may live and that it may be well with you and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess

  • Deuteronomy 6:2 - That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command and thy son's and thy son's and thy son's all the days of thy life may be prolonged all the days

  • Psalms 6:4 - Return O LORD deliver my soul oh save me for thy mercies

  • Micah 6:5 - O my people remember consulted now what Balak king of Moab answered and what Balaam the son of Beor him from Shittim unto Gilgal that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD

  • Ezekiel 6:6 - In all your dwellingplaces the cities may be laid waste and the high places shall be desolate may be laid waste and made desolate that your altars may be broken and cease and your idols may be cut down and your images may be abolished and your works

  • Nehemiah 6:13 - Therefore was he hired that I should be afraid and do so and sin report and that they might have matter for an evil that they might reproach

  • Micah 6:16 - are kept For the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab in their counsels that I should make thee a desolation and the inhabitants thereof an hissing the reproach of my people therefore ye shall bear

  • Deuteronomy 6:18 - And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD that it may be well with thee and that thou mayest go in and possess land and good sware of the LORD unto thy fathers

  • Deuteronomy 6:23 - And he brought us out from thence that he might bring us in to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 6:31 - That they may fear in thy ways so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 6:32 - Moreover concerning the stranger which is not of thy people Israel but is come country from a far name's for thy great hand sake and thy mighty arm and thy stretched out but is come and pray in this house

  • 2 Chronicles 6:33 - Then hear thou from the heavens place even from thy dwelling and do calleth according to all that the stranger and may know thee as doth thy people of the earth by thy name and fear thee as doth thy people Israel and may know by thy name calleth that this house which I have built

  • Jeremiah 7:10 - And come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name and say We are delivered to do all these abominations

  • Jeremiah 7:18 - The children gather wood and the fathers kindle the fire and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings gods unto other that they may provoke me to anger

  • Jeremiah 7:19 - Do they provoke me to anger saith the LORD do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces

  • Jeremiah 7:23 - But this thing commanded I them saying Obey my voice and I will be your God and ye shall be my people and walk ye in all the ways commanded you that it may be well

  • Deuteronomy 8:1 - All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do that ye may live and multiply and go in and possess the land sware which the LORD unto your fathers

  • Deuteronomy 8:2 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God thee these forty years in the wilderness to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine heart whether thou wouldest keep his commandments

  • Psalms 8:2 - Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger

  • Deuteronomy 8:3 - And he humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manna know know not neither did thy fathers know by bread only doth not live doth man but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth not live doth man

  • Hosea 8:4 - They have set up kings and I knew it not of their silver and their gold have they made them idols that they may be cut off

  • Exodus 8:10 - And he said To morrow And he said Be it according to thy word that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God

  • Deuteronomy 8:16 - Who fed with manna thee in the wilderness knew which thy fathers not that he might humble thee and that he might prove thee to do thee good at thy latter end

  • Deuteronomy 8:18 - But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers as it is this day

  • 2 Kings 8:19 - would Yet the LORD not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake as he promised him to give a light and to his children him alway

  • Exodus 8:22 - And I will sever in that day of the earth of Goshen in which my people dwell that no of flies shall be swarms there to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth

  • 1 Kings 8:40 - That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers

  • 1 Kings 8:41 - Moreover concerning a stranger that is not of thy people Israel but cometh out country of a far for thy ~'s

  • 1 Kings 8:43 - Hear thou in heaven place thy dwelling and do calleth according to all that the stranger and that they may know thee as do thy people of the earth by thy ~ to fear thee as do thy people Israel and that they may know by thy ~ calleth that this house which I have builded

  • 1 Kings 8:60 - may know That all the people of the earth that the LORD is God

  • Deuteronomy 9:5 - Not for thy righteousness or for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go doth drive them out their land doth drive them out of these nations the LORD thy God but for the wickedness from before thee and that he may perform the word sware the LORD unto thy fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob

  • Amos 9:12 - That they may possess the remnant of Edom and of all the heathen which are called by my name saith the LORD that doeth

  • Ezra 9:12 - not your daughters Now therefore give to your children not your daughters neither take to your children nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever that ye may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever

  • Psalms 9:14 - That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion I will rejoice in thy salvation

  • Exodus 9:16 - And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up deed for to shew in thee my power may be declared and that my name throughout all the earth

  • Daniel 9:17 - hear Now therefore O our God the prayer of thy servant and his supplications to shine and cause thy face upon thy sanctuary that is desolate for the Lord's

  • Daniel 9:19 - O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and do not defer for thine own sake O my God by thy name are called for thy city and thy people

  • Exodus 9:29 - said And Moses unto him As soon as I am gone out of the city I will spread abroad my hands is the LORD'S and the thunder shall cease neither shall there be any more hail that thou mayest know is the LORD'S how that the earth

  • Exodus 10:1 - said And the LORD unto Moses Go in unto Pharaoh for I have hardened and the heart and the heart of his servants that I might shew these my signs before

  • Exodus 10:2 - And that thou mayest tell in the ears and of thy son's and of thy son's and of thy son's what things I have wrought in Egypt and my signs which I have done among them that ye may know how that I am the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 10:15 - hearkened So the king not unto the people for the cause was of God might perform that the LORD his word which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat

  • Jeremiah 10:18 - For thus saith the LORD Behold I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once and will distress them that they may find

  • 2 Kings 10:19 - unto me all the prophets of Baal all his servants and all his priests Now therefore call let none be wanting sacrifice for I have a great of Baal be wanting he shall not live But Jehu did it in subtilty to the intent that he might destroy all his servants of Baal

  • Jeremiah 11:5 - That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as it is this day Then answered I and said So be it O LORD

  • Exodus 11:7 - But against any of the children and Israel move shall not a dog his tongue against man or beast that ye may know doth put a difference how that the LORD between the Egyptians and Israel

  • Deuteronomy 11:8 - Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day that ye may be strong and go in and possess the land which whither ye go and possess

  • Deuteronomy 11:9 - And that ye may prolong your days in the land sware which the LORD unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed a land that floweth with milk and honey

  • Exodus 11:9 - said And the LORD unto Moses shall not hearken Pharaoh may be multiplied unto you that my wonders in the land of Egypt

  • 1 Kings 11:12 - Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's it out of the hand of thy son sake but I will rend

  • 1 Kings 11:13 - Howbeit all the kingdom I will not rend away tribe one but will give to thy son for David my servant's sake and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen

  • Ezekiel 11:20 - in my statutes mine ordinances and keep and do them and they shall be my people and I will be their God

  • Joshua 11:20 - For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts that they should come against in battle Israel that he might destroy them utterly and that they might have no favour but that he might destroy commanded For it was of the LORD Moses

  • Deuteronomy 11:21 - may be multiplied That your days That your days of your children in the land sware which the LORD unto your fathers to give That your days of heaven upon the earth

  • 1 Kings 11:32 - out of all the tribes But he shall have one for my servant David's sake and for Jerusalem's sake the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel

  • 1 Kings 11:34 - Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand him prince but I will make all the days of his life for David my servant's sake whom I chose because he kept my commandments and my statutes

  • 1 Kings 11:36 - And unto his son will I give tribe one may have a light that David my servant alway before me in Jerusalem the city which I have chosen me to put my ~

  • 1 Kings 11:39 - And I will for this afflict the seed of David but not for ever

  • Zechariah 12:7 - also shall save The LORD the tents of Judah first do not magnify and the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem of Judah

  • Genesis 12:13 - Say I pray thee thou art my sister that it may be well shall live with me for thy sake and my soul because of thee

  • 1 Kings 12:15 - hearkened Wherefore the king not unto the people for the cause was from the LORD that he might perform his saying spake was from the LORD by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat

  • Ezekiel 12:16 - But I will leave a few of them from the sword from the famine and from the pestilence that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come and they shall know that I am the LORD

  • Ezekiel 12:19 - And say unto the people of the land And say the Lord GOD of all them that dwell of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel their bread with carefulness They shall eat their water with astonishment and drink may be desolate and of the land from all that is therein because of the violence of all them that dwell

  • Deuteronomy 12:25 - Thou shalt not eat it that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD

  • Deuteronomy 12:28 - Observe and hear all these words which I command thee that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee for ever when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God

  • Zechariah 13:4 - And it shall come to pass in that day shall be ashamed that the prophets every one of his vision when he hath prophesied neither shall they wear garment a rough to deceive

  • 2 Samuel 13:5 - said And Jonadab unto him Lay thee down on thy bed and make thyself sick come and when thy father that I may see said come Tamar unto him I pray thee let my sister and give me meat and dress in my sight the meat that I may see it and eat it at her hand

  • Exodus 13:9 - And it shall be for a sign hand and for a memorial between thine eyes law hath the LORD may be in thy mouth hand for with a strong brought thee out hath the LORD of Egypt

  • Deuteronomy 13:17 - And there shall cleave to thine hand nought of the cursed thing may turn that the LORD from the fierceness of his anger and shew thee mercy and have compassion upon thee and multiply thee as he hath sworn unto thy fathers

  • 2 Kings 13:23 - was gracious And the LORD unto them and had compassion on them and had respect unto them because of his covenant with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and would not destroy them neither cast he them from his presence as yet

  • Ezekiel 14:5 - That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart because they are all estranged from me through their idols

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