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)


  • Jeremiah 14:7 - though our iniquities testify O LORD against us do thou it for thy name's are many sake for our backslidings we have sinned

  • Ezekiel 14:11 - may go no more astray That the house of Israel from me neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions but that they may be my people and I may be their God saith the Lord GOD

  • Jeremiah 14:21 - Do not abhor us for thy name's sake do not disgrace the throne of thy glory remember break not thy covenant

  • Deuteronomy 14:23 - And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose to place his name there the tithe of thy corn of thy wine and of thine oil and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always

  • Deuteronomy 14:29 - shall come And the Levite because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow which are within thy gates and shall eat and be satisfied may bless that the LORD thy God thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest

  • 1 Kings 15:4 - Nevertheless for David's give sake did the LORD his God him a lamp Jerusalem to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem

  • 1 Samuel 15:15 - said And Saul them from the Amalekites They have brought spared for the people the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God and the rest we have utterly destroyed

  • Proverbs 15:24 - The way of life is above to the wise that he may depart from hell beneath

  • Numbers 15:40 - That ye may remember and do all my commandments and be holy unto your God

  • Deuteronomy 16:3 - Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it seven all the days Thou shalt eat unleavened bread therewith even the bread of affliction in haste for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt that thou mayest remember all the days for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life

  • Exodus 16:4 - Then said the LORD unto Moses Behold I will rain bread from heaven shall go out for you and the people and gather a certain rate every day every day that I may prove in my law

  • Deuteronomy 16:20 - That which is altogether That which is altogether shalt thou follow that thou mayest live and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth

  • Exodus 16:32 - said And Moses This is the thing commandeth which the LORD Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt

  • Numbers 16:40 - To be a memorial unto the children of Israel that come near no stranger that which is not of the seed of Aaron to offer incense before as the LORD that he be not as Korah and as his company that said as the LORD to him by the hand of Moses

  • Ezekiel 16:54 - That thou mayest bear thine own shame and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done in that thou art a comfort

  • Ezekiel 16:63 - That thou mayest remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord GOD

  • Leviticus 17:5 - even that they may bring To the end that the children of Israel offerings and offer in the open field even that they may bring them unto the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation unto the priest and offer offerings them for peace them unto the LORD

  • Deuteronomy 17:16 - But he shall not multiply horses return to himself nor cause the people to Egypt But he shall not multiply horses forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you Ye shall henceforth return no more that way

  • Deuteronomy 17:19 - And it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the LORD his God to keep all the words of this law and these statutes to do

  • Deuteronomy 17:20 - be not lifted up That his heart above his brethren and that he turn not aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom he and his children in the midst of Israel

  • 1 Samuel 17:28 - heard And Eliab brother his eldest when he spake was kindled anger And Eliab against David and he said Why camest thou down hither and with whom hast thou left few sheep those in the wilderness I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thine heart that thou mightest see the battle Why camest thou down

  • 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

  • Genesis 18:19 - For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the LORD to do justice and judgment may bring of the LORD upon Abraham him that that which he hath spoken

  • Genesis 18:24 - Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for fifty righteous that are therein

  • Ezekiel 19:9 - And they put him in ward in chains and brought him to the king of Babylon and brought him into holds should no more be heard that his voice upon the mountains of Israel

  • Proverbs 19:20 - Hear counsel and receive instruction that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end

  • 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

  • 2 Kings 19:34 - For I will defend this city to save David's it for mine own sake and for my servant

  • Leviticus 20:3 - And I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people of his seed And I will set unto Molech to defile my sanctuary and to profane name my holy

  • 2 Kings 20:6 - And I will add unto thy days fifteen years out of the hand of the king of Assyria and I will deliver thee and this city and I will defend thee and this city David's for mine own sake and for my servant

  • Ezekiel 20:9 - But I wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted before the heathen among I made myself known before unto them in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt

  • Exodus 20:12 - Honour thy father and thy mother may be long that thy days upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth

  • Ezekiel 20:14 - But I wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted before the heathen I brought them out before

  • Deuteronomy 20:18 - That they teach which they have done after all their abominations which they have done unto their gods so should ye sin against the LORD unto their gods

  • Ezekiel 20:22 - Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand and wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen I brought them forth in the sight

  • Ezekiel 20:26 - And I polluted them in their own gifts in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb that I might make them desolate to the end that they might know that I am the LORD

  • Ezekiel 20:44 - And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with you for my name's ways sake not according to your wicked doings nor according to your corrupt O ye house of Israel saith the Lord GOD

  • 2 Chronicles 21:7 - would Howbeit the LORD not destroy the house of David because of the covenant that he had made of David and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever

  • Ezekiel 21:10 - to make a sore slaughter It is sharpened that it may glitter should we then make mirth the rod of my son it contemneth as every tree

  • Ezekiel 21:15 - may faint that their heart be multiplied and their ruins against all their gates I have set the point of the sword ah it is made bright it is wrapped up for the slaughter

  • Ezekiel 21:28 - And thou son of man prophesy Thus saith Thus saith the Lord GOD And thou son and concerning their reproach Thus saith the sword the sword is drawn for the slaughter it is furbished to consume because of the glittering

  • Ezekiel 22:6 - Behold the princes of Israel every one were in thee to their power to shed blood

  • Deuteronomy 22:7 - But thou shalt in any wise But thou shalt in any wise let the dam the young and take to thee that it may be well with thee and that thou mayest prolong thy days

  • Ezekiel 22:9 - In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood upon the mountains and in thee they eat lewdness of thee they commit in the midst

  • Ezekiel 22:12 - gifts In thee have they taken to shed blood usury and increase In thee have they taken and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me saith the Lord GOD

  • 2 Kings 22:17 - Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense gods unto other that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands shall be kindled therefore my wrath against this place and shall not be quenched

  • Ezekiel 22:27 - Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood and to destroy souls to get dishonest gain

  • Psalms 23:3 - my soul He restoreth he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's

  • Exodus 23:12 - Six day thou shalt do thy work day and on the seventh thou shalt rest may rest that thine ox and thine ass may be refreshed and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger

  • Isaiah 23:16 - Take an harp go about the city thou harlot that hast been forgotten make sweet melody sing many songs that thou mayest be remembered

  • Deuteronomy 23:20 - Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury but unto thy brother thou mayest lend upon usury may bless that the LORD thy God thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess

  • Ezekiel 23:21 - Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth in bruising by the Egyptians thy teats for the paps of thy youth

  • 2 Kings 23:24 - Moreover the workers with familiar spirits and the wizards and the images and the idols and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem put away did Josiah that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book found that Hilkiah the priest in the house of the LORD

  • Leviticus 23:43 - may know That your generations in booths to dwell that I made the children of Israel when I brought them out of the land of Egypt I am the LORD your God

  • Ezekiel 24:11 - Then set upon the coals it empty of it may be hot and may burn thereof that the brass of it may be molten in it and that the filthiness of it may be consumed that the scum

  • Deuteronomy 24:19 - When thou cuttest down thine harvest in the field and hast forgot a sheaf in the field thou shalt not go again to fetch it it shall be for the stranger for the fatherless and for the widow may bless that the LORD thy God thee in all the work of thine hands

  • Jeremiah 25:7 - Yet ye have not hearkened unto me saith the LORD that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt

  • Psalms 25:7 - not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions Remember according to thy mercy Remember thou me for thy goodness sake O LORD

  • Ezekiel 25:10 - Unto the men of the east Unto the men and will give them in possession may not be remembered Unto the men among the nations

  • Psalms 25:11 - For thy name's sake O LORD pardon mine iniquity for it is great

  • Deuteronomy 25:15 - weight But thou shalt have a perfect and just measure But thou shalt have a perfect and just may be lengthened shalt thou have that thy days in the land which the LORD thy God giveth

  • 2 Chronicles 25:20 - would not hear But Amaziah after the gods that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies because they sought after the gods of Edom

  • Ezekiel 26:20 - When I shall bring thee down When I shall bring thee down into the pit with the people of old and shall set in the land thee in the low parts in places desolate of old When I shall bring thee down into the pit and shall set and I shall set glory in the land of the living

  • Deuteronomy 27:3 - And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law when thou art passed over that thou mayest go in thee a land as the LORD God giveth thee a land that floweth with milk and honey hath promised as the LORD God of thy fathers

  • Jeremiah 27:10 - a lie For they prophesy unto you to remove you far from your land and that I should drive you out and ye should perish

  • Psalms 27:11 - Teach O LORD me thy way and lead path me in a plain because of mine enemies

  • 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

  • Numbers 27:20 - And thou shalt put some of thine honour may be obedient upon him that all the congregation of the children of Israel

  • Genesis 27:25 - And he said Bring it near to him and he did eat venison of my son's may bless that my soul Bring it near to him and he did eat and he brought him wine and he drank

  • 1 Chronicles 28:8 - Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD and in the audience of our God keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD of our God that ye may possess land this good and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever

  • Isaiah 28:13 - But the word of the LORD precept precept precept precept line line line line and there a little and there a little and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken

  • Deuteronomy 29:6 - bread Ye have not eaten wine or strong drink neither have ye drunk that ye might know that I am the LORD your God

  • Deuteronomy 29:9 - Keep therefore the words of this covenant and do them that ye may prosper and do

  • Deuteronomy 29:13 - That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself and that he may be unto thee a God as he hath said unto thee and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob

  • Deuteronomy 29:19 - And it come to pass when he heareth the words of this curse that he bless himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though in the imagination of mine heart to add drunkenness to thirst

  • Isaiah 30:1 - Woe children to the rebellious saith the LORD that take counsel but not of me and that cover with a covering but not of my spirit that they may add sin sin

  • Deuteronomy 30:6 - will circumcise And the LORD thy God and the heart and the heart of thy seed to love And the LORD thy God and the heart and with all thy soul that thou mayest live

  • Psalms 30:12 - may sing To the end that my glory praise to thee and not be silent O LORD my God unto thee for ever I will give thanks

  • Deuteronomy 30:19 - I call this day heaven and earth life and death against you that I have set before blessing and cursing therefore choose life may live that both thou and thy seed

  • Psalms 31:3 - For thou art my rock and my fortress therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide

  • 2 Chronicles 31:4 - Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD

  • Deuteronomy 31:12 - Gather the people and women and children and thy stranger that is within thy gates that they may hear and that they may learn and fear the LORD your God and observe to do all the words of this law

  • Ezekiel 31:14 - exalt themselves for their height To the end that none of all the trees by the waters for they are all delivered their top among the thick boughs stand up neither their trees in their height all that drink by the waters for they are all delivered unto death of the earth to the nether parts in the midst of the children of men with them that go down to the pit

  • Deuteronomy 31:19 - Now therefore write that this song for you and teach for me against the children of Israel put it in their mouths that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel

  • 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

  • 2 Chronicles 32:18 - Then they cried voice with a loud in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall to affright them and to trouble them that they might take the city

  • 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

  • Exodus 33:13 - Now therefore I pray thee if I have found grace in thy sight shew me now thy way shew Now therefore I pray thee if I have found grace in thy sight and consider is thy people that this nation

  • 2 Chronicles 34:25 - Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense gods unto other that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands shall be poured out therefore my wrath upon this place and shall not be quenched

  • 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

  • Ezekiel 36:5 - Therefore thus saith the Lord Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen and against all Idumea which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart with despiteful minds to cast it out for a prey

  • Numbers 36:8 - And every daughter may enjoy an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel unto one of the family in any tribe of her father shall be wife may enjoy of the children of Israel every man an inheritance of her father

  • Ezekiel 36:22 - Therefore say not this for your sakes O house of Israel Therefore say the Lord GOD I do not this for your sakes O house of Israel name's but for mine holy sake which ye have profaned among the heathen whither ye went

  • Ezekiel 36:30 - And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen

  • Ezekiel 36:32 - Not for your sakes do I this saith the Lord GOD be it known unto you be ashamed and confounded for your own ways O house of Israel

  • Genesis 37:22 - said And Reuben unto them Shed no blood but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness him out of their hands and lay upon him that he might rid him out of their hands again him to his father

  • Isaiah 37:35 - For I will defend this city to save David's it for mine own sake and for my servant

  • Ezekiel 38:16 - And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel as a cloud to cover the land it shall be in the latter days and I will bring the land may know that the heathen me when I shall be sanctified before their eyes in thee O Gog