Strong's #3282: ya`an (pronounced yah'-an)
from an unused root meaning to pay attention; properly, heed; by implication, purpose (sake or account); used adverbially to indicate the reason or cause:--because (that), forasmuch (+ as), seeing then, + that, + wheras, + why.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ya‛an
1) because, therefore, because that, on account of (conjunction)
2) because of, on account of (preposition)
3) why (with interrogative pronoun) (preposition)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: from an unused root meaning to pay attention
Usage:
This word is used 96 times:
Jeremiah 35:17: "that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard;"
Jeremiah 48:7: "For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, shalt also be taken:"
Ezekiel 5:7: "saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that"
Ezekiel 5:9: "do any more the like, because of all thine abominations."
Ezekiel 5:11: "the Lord Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary"
Ezekiel 12:12: "to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not"
Ezekiel 13:8: "saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies,"
Ezekiel 13:10: " Because, even because they have seduced my people, Peace; and there was no"
Ezekiel 13:10: "Because, even because they have seduced my people, Peace; and there was no"
Ezekiel 13:22: " Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, have not made sad;"
Ezekiel 15:8: "the land desolate, because a trespass, saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 16:36: "saith the Lord GOD; Because was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered"
Ezekiel 16:43: " Because thou hast not remembered the days but hast fretted"
Ezekiel 20:16: " Because they despised my judgments, and walked not but polluted my sabbaths:"
Ezekiel 20:24: " Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised and had polluted my sabbaths,"
Ezekiel 21:4: " Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous therefore shall my sword"
Ezekiel 21:24: "saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered,"
Ezekiel 21:24: "your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand."
Ezekiel 22:19: "saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold,"
Ezekiel 23:35: "saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back,"
Ezekiel 24:13: "In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not thou shalt not be purged"
Ezekiel 25:3: "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against"
Ezekiel 25:6: "saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet,"
Ezekiel 25:8: "saith the Lord GOD; Because that and Seir do say, Behold,"
Ezekiel 25:12: "saith the Lord GOD; Because that hath dealt against the house of Judah"
Ezekiel 25:15: "saith the Lord GOD; Because have dealt by revenge, and have taken"
Ezekiel 26:2: "Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said Jerusalem,"
Ezekiel 28:2: "saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I"
Ezekiel 28:6: "saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart"
Ezekiel 29:6: "that am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house"
Ezekiel 29:9: "that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made"
Ezekiel 31:10: "saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up"
Ezekiel 34:8: "the Lord GOD, because my flock became a prey,"
Ezekiel 34:21: " Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed the diseased with your horns,"
Ezekiel 35:5: " Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the children of Israel"
Ezekiel 35:10: " Because thou hast said, These two nations countries shall be"
Ezekiel 36:2: "saith the Lord GOD; Because hath said against you, Aha,"
Ezekiel 36:3: "saith GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up"
Ezekiel 36:3: "saith GOD; Because Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up"
Ezekiel 36:6: "I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:"
Ezekiel 36:13: "saith the Lord GOD; Because unto you, Thou land devourest up men,"
Ezekiel 44:12: " Because they ministered unto them before their idols, the house"
Hosea 8:1: "against of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against"
Amos 5:11: " Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, from him burdens"
Haggai 1:9: "it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts."
Haggai 1:9: "upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste,"
