Strong's #4616: ma`an (pronounced mah'-an)
from 6030; 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), + lest, that, to.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ma‛an
1) purpose, intent
1a) for the sake of
1b) in view of, on account of
1c) for the purpose of, to the intent that, in order to conjunction
1d) to the end that
Part of Speech: substantive
Relation: from H6030
Usage:
This word is used 272 times:
Deuteronomy 11:8: "I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess"
Deuteronomy 11:9: " And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore"
Deuteronomy 11:21: " That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which"
Deuteronomy 12:25: "Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do"
Deuteronomy 12:28: "which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee forever,"
Deuteronomy 13:17: "naught of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness"
Deuteronomy 14:23: "and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD"
Deuteronomy 14:29: "shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all"
Deuteronomy 16:3: "out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day"
Deuteronomy 16:20: "That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land"
Deuteronomy 17:16: "the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said"
Deuteronomy 17:19: "therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD"
Deuteronomy 17:20: "and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days"
Deuteronomy 20:18: " That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which"
Deuteronomy 22:7: "go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days."
Deuteronomy 23:20: "but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all"
Deuteronomy 24:19: "for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all"
Deuteronomy 25:15: "and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land"
Deuteronomy 27:3: "of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land"
Deuteronomy 29:6: "have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD"
Deuteronomy 29:9: "of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that"
Deuteronomy 29:13: " That he may establish thee today for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as"
Deuteronomy 29:19: "I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:"
Deuteronomy 30:6: "thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live."
Deuteronomy 30:19: "and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:"
Deuteronomy 31:12: "and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that"
Deuteronomy 31:12: "and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear"
Deuteronomy 31:19: "of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness"
Joshua 1:7: "from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest."
Joshua 1:8: "out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all"
Joshua 3:4: "by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know"
Joshua 4:6: " That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask"
Joshua 4:24: " That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD,"
Joshua 4:24: "that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God"
Joshua 11:20: "Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favor,"
Joshua 11:20: "no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded"
Judges 2:22: " That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way"
Judges 3:2: "Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war,"
1 Samuel 15:15: "spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD"
1 Samuel 17:28: "of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle."
2 Samuel 13:5: "the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand."
1 Kings 2:3: "in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest,"
1 Kings 2:4: " That the LORD may continue his word which he spoke concerning"
1 Kings 8:40: " That they may fear thee all the days that they live in"
1 Kings 8:41: "of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;"
1 Kings 8:43: "the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know"
1 Kings 8:60: " That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God,"
1 Kings 11:12: "in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand"
1 Kings 11:13: "one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake"
1 Kings 11:13: "tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which"
