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:
Jeremiah 7:23: "ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well"
Jeremiah 10:18: "at this once, and will distress them, that they may find"
Jeremiah 11:5: " That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give"
Jeremiah 14:7: "our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many;"
Jeremiah 14:21: "Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory:"
Jeremiah 25:7: "unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt."
Jeremiah 27:10: "they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from"
Jeremiah 27:15: "prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye,"
Jeremiah 32:14: "and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days."
Jeremiah 32:29: "drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger."
Jeremiah 32:35: "that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin."
Jeremiah 35:7: "your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in"
Jeremiah 36:3: "I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way;"
Jeremiah 42:6: "to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey"
Jeremiah 43:3: "the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans,"
Jeremiah 44:8: "whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be"
Jeremiah 44:8: "be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach"
Jeremiah 44:29: "will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words"
Jeremiah 50:34: "he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land,"
Jeremiah 51:39: "their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep,"
Ezekiel 4:17: " That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away"
Ezekiel 6:6: "shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols"
Ezekiel 11:20: " That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be"
Ezekiel 12:16: "them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare"
Ezekiel 12:19: "and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein,"
Ezekiel 14:5: " That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all"
Ezekiel 14:11: " That the house of Israel may go no more astray from"
Ezekiel 16:54: " That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done,"
Ezekiel 16:63: " That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because"
Ezekiel 19:9: "of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard"
Ezekiel 20:9: "But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among"
Ezekiel 20:14: "But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose"
Ezekiel 20:22: "mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight"
Ezekiel 20:26: "the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know"
Ezekiel 20:26: "the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I"
Ezekiel 20:44: "am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways,"
Ezekiel 21:10: "It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter:"
Ezekiel 21:10: "to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then"
Ezekiel 21:15: "against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied:"
Ezekiel 21:28: "is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:"
Ezekiel 22:6: "every one were in thee to their power to shed blood."
Ezekiel 22:9: "In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon"
Ezekiel 22:12: "In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase,"
Ezekiel 22:27: "blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain."
Ezekiel 23:21: "in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth."
Ezekiel 24:11: "it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness"
Ezekiel 25:10: "the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not"
Ezekiel 26:20: "of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set"
Ezekiel 31:14: " To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height,"
Ezekiel 36:5: "of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey."
