Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H4616: מַעַן (maʻan) 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)


  • Jeremiah 27:15 - For I have not sent them saith the LORD that prophesy in my name a lie that I might drive you out and that ye might perish ye and the prophets that prophesy

  • Jeremiah 32:14 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Take and this evidence and this evidence of the purchase both which is sealed and this evidence which is open and put vessel them in an earthen that they may continue days many

  • Jeremiah 32:29 - shall come And the Chaldeans that fight against this city and set against this city fire and burn it with the houses they have offered incense upon whose roofs unto Baal and poured out drink offerings gods unto other to provoke me to anger

  • Jeremiah 32:35 - And they built the high places of Baal which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom to pass of the son and their daughters through the fire unto Molech which I commanded them not neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination to sin to cause Judah

  • Jeremiah 35:7 - house Neither shall ye build seed nor sow vineyard nor plant in tents ye shall dwell days that ye may live days many in the land where ye be strangers

  • Jeremiah 36:3 - will hear It may be that the house of Judah all the evil which I purpose to do unto them that they may return every man way all the evil that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin

  • Jeremiah 42:6 - Whether it be good or whether it be evil the voice of the LORD our God to whom we send we will obey thee that it may be well we will obey the voice of the LORD our God

  • Jeremiah 43:3 - But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans that they might put us to death and carry us away captives into Babylon

  • Jeremiah 44:8 - In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands burning incense gods unto other in the land of Egypt whither ye be gone to dwell that ye might cut yourselves off and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations in the land

  • Jeremiah 44:29 - And this shall be a sign unto you saith the LORD that I will punish you in this place that ye may know shall surely shall surely that my words against you for evil

  • Jeremiah 50:34 - Their Redeemer is strong the LORD of hosts is his name he shall throughly he shall throughly their cause that he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon

  • Jeremiah 51:39 - In their heat I will make their feasts and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep sleep a perpetual and not wake saith the LORD

  • Job 18:4 - He teareth himself in his anger be forsaken shall the earth be removed for thee and shall the rock out of his place

  • Job 19:29 - Be ye afraid of of the sword for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword that ye may know there is a judgment

  • Job 40:8 - Wilt thou also disannul my judgment wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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