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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • 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