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:
Ezekiel 36:22: "I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but"
Ezekiel 36:30: "of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more"
Ezekiel 36:32: "Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known"
Ezekiel 38:16: "and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog,"
Ezekiel 39:12: "shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land."
Ezekiel 40:4: "I shall show thee; for to the intent that I might show them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare"
Ezekiel 46:18: "to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession:"
Daniel 9:17: "to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake."
Daniel 9:19: "and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people"
Hosea 8:4: "and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off."
Joel 3:6: "of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from"
Amos 1:13: "they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:"
Amos 2:7: "will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:"
Amos 5:14: "good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God"
Amos 9:12: " That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which"
Obadiah 1:9: "And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau"
Micah 6:5: "Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD."
Micah 6:16: "of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing:"
Habakkuk 2:2: "and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth"
Habakkuk 2:15: "that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!"
Zechariah 12:7: "the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory"
Zechariah 13:4: "neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:"
