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)


  • Ezekiel 39:12 - be burying shall the house of Israel of them that they may cleanse the land And seven months

  • Ezekiel 40:4 - said And the man unto me Son of man all that thou seest with thine eyes with thine ears and hear and set thine heart all that thou seest thee for to the intent all that thou seest them unto thee art thou brought hither declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel

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

  • Isaiah 41:20 - That they may see and know and consider and understand together that the hand of the LORD hath done this and the Holy One of Israel hath created

  • 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

  • Isaiah 42:21 - The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness sake he will magnify the law and make it honourable

  • 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

  • Isaiah 43:10 - Ye are my witnesses saith the LORD and my servant whom I have chosen that ye may know and believe me and understand that I am he before formed me there was no God neither shall there be after

  • Isaiah 43:14 - Thus saith the LORD your redeemer the Holy One of Israel For your sake I have sent to Babylon and have brought down all their nobles and the Chaldeans is in the ships whose cry

  • Isaiah 43:25 - I even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions thy sins for mine own sake and will not remember

  • Isaiah 43:26 - Put me in remembrance let us plead together declare thou that thou mayest be justified

  • 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

  • Isaiah 44:9 - They that make a graven image are all of them vanity and their delectable things shall not profit and they are their own witnesses they see not nor know that they may be ashamed

  • Psalms 44:26 - Arise for our help and redeem us for thy mercies

  • 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

  • Isaiah 45:3 - And I will give thee the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places that thou mayest know that I the LORD which call thee by thy name am the God of Israel

  • Isaiah 45:4 - my servant's For Jacob sake and Israel mine elect I have even called thee by thy name I have surnamed thee though thou hast not known

  • Isaiah 45:6 - That they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none beside me I am the LORD

  • Ezekiel 46:18 - shall not take Moreover the prince inheritance of the people's by oppression from his possession from his possession inheritance but he shall give his sons be not scattered of the people's every man from his possession

  • Isaiah 48:9 - For my name's sake will I defer mine anger and for my praise will I refrain for thee that I cut thee not off

  • Isaiah 48:11 - For mine own sake even for mine own sake will I do it for how should my name be polluted my glory unto another and I will not give

  • Psalms 48:11 - rejoice Let mount Zion be glad let the daughters of Judah because of thy judgments

  • Psalms 48:13 - Mark ye well her bulwarks consider her palaces that ye may tell it to the generation following

  • Isaiah 49:7 - Thus saith because of the LORD the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One despiseth to him whom man abhorreth to him whom the nation to a servant of rulers Kings shall see and arise princes also shall worship because of the LORD that is faithful and his Holy One of Israel and he shall choose

  • Genesis 50:20 - But as for you ye thought evil against me but God But as for you ye thought unto good to bring to pass as it is this day alive people much

  • 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

  • Psalms 51:4 - Against thee thee only have I sinned this evil in thy sight and done that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest

  • 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

  • Isaiah 55:5 - a nation that knew Behold thou shalt call a nation that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God and for the Holy One of Israel for he hath glorified

  • Psalms 60:5 - may be delivered That thy beloved save with thy right hand and hear

  • Isaiah 62:1 - For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest thereof go forth as brightness until the righteousness and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth

  • Isaiah 63:17 - why hast thou made us to err O LORD from thy ways and hardened our heart from thy fear Return for thy servants sake the tribes of thine inheritance

  • Isaiah 65:8 - Thus saith the LORD is found As the new wine in the cluster Thus saith Destroy it not for a blessing is in it so will I do for my servants Destroy

  • Isaiah 66:5 - Hear at his word Let the LORD ye that tremble at his word sake said Your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my name's be glorified Let the LORD but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed

  • Isaiah 66:11 - That ye may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations that ye may milk out and be delighted with the abundance of her glory

  • Psalms 68:23 - may be dipped That thy foot in the blood and the tongue of thy dogs of thine enemies

  • Psalms 69:18 - Draw nigh unto my soul and redeem me because of mine enemies it deliver

  • Psalms 78:6 - might know That the generation to come them even the children which should be born who should arise and declare them even the children

  • Psalms 79:9 - Help us O God of our salvation for the glory for thy name's and deliver us and purge away our sins for thy name's

  • Psalms 97:8 - heard and was glad Zion rejoiced and the daughters of Judah because of thy judgments O LORD

  • Psalms 106:8 - Nevertheless he saved them for his name's to be known sake that he might make his mighty power

  • Psalms 108:6 - may be delivered That thy beloved save with thy right hand and answer

  • Psalms 109:21 - thou for me O GOD the Lord But do for thy name's is good sake because thy mercy deliver

  • Psalms 119:11 - in mine heart have I hid Thy word that I might not sin

  • Psalms 119:71 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes

  • Psalms 119:80 - Let my heart be sound in thy statutes that I be not ashamed

  • Psalms 119:101 - way from every evil I have refrained my feet that I might keep thy word

  • Psalms 122:8 - For my brethren and companions sakes I will now say Peace

  • Psalms 122:9 - Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good

  • Psalms 125:3 - shall not rest For the rod of the wicked upon the lot of the righteous lest put forth of the righteous unto iniquity their hands

  • Psalms 130:4 - But there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared

  • Psalms 143:11 - for thy name's me O LORD Quicken sake for thy righteousness sake bring out of trouble my soul