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)


  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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