Strong's #5668: `abuwr (pronounced aw-boor')

or rabur {aw-boor'}; passive participle of 5674; properly, crossed, i.e. (abstractly) transit; used only adverbially, on account of, in order that:--because of, for (...'s sake), (intent) that, to.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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‛âbûr

1) for the sake of, on account of, because of, in order to (preposition)

2) in order that (conjunction)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: passive participle of H5674

Usage:

This word is used 49 times:

 

Genesis 3:17: "of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days"
Genesis 8:21: "the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's"
Genesis 12:13: "art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of"
Genesis 12:16: "And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants,"
Genesis 18:26: "then I will spare all the place for their sakes."
Genesis 18:29: "And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake."
Genesis 18:31: "And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake."
Genesis 18:32: "And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake."
Genesis 21:30: "ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that"
Genesis 26:24: "thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's"
Genesis 27:4: "I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die."
Genesis 27:10: "And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death."
Genesis 27:19: "I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless"
Genesis 27:31: "and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless"
Genesis 46:34: "both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen;"
Exodus 9:14: "thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me"
Exodus 9:16: "And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in thee my power;"
Exodus 9:16: "for this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in thee my power; and that"
Exodus 13:8: "in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth"
Exodus 19:9: "unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with"
Exodus 20:20: "for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be"
Exodus 20:20: "is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces,"
1 Samuel 1:6: "also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up"
1 Samuel 12:22: "his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make"
1 Samuel 23:10: "to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake."
2 Samuel 5:12: "his kingdom for his people Israel's sake."
2 Samuel 6:12: "of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went"
2 Samuel 7:21: " For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things,"
2 Samuel 9:1: "that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"
2 Samuel 9:7: "I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee"
2 Samuel 10:3: "his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out,"
2 Samuel 12:21: "thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead,"
2 Samuel 12:25: "his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD."
2 Samuel 13:2: "And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she"
2 Samuel 14:20: " To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done"
2 Samuel 17:14: "the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil"
2 Samuel 18:18: "he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar"
1 Chronicles 14:2: "his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel."
1 Chronicles 17:19: "O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this"
1 Chronicles 19:3: "his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?"
2 Chronicles 28:19: "brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for"
Job 20:2: "Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste."
Psalms 105:45: " That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD."
Psalms 106:32: "of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:"
Psalms 132:10: "For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed."
Jeremiah 14:4: " Because the ground is chapped, for there was no rain in the earth,"
Amos 2:6: "the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;"
Amos 8:6: "the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?"
Micah 2:10: "this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction."