H4616–מַ֫עַן–ma.an

only, a distance is between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure; ye do not come near unto it, so that ye know the way in which ye go, for ye have not passed over in the way heretofore.'

לְמַ֤עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

so that this is a sign in your midst, when your children ask hereafter, saying, What `are' these stones to you?

לְמַ֗עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

so that all the people of the land do know the hand of Jehovah that it `is' strong, so that ye have reverenced Jehovah your God all the days.'

לְ֠מַעַן Le.ma.'an “so as”לְמַ֧עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

for from Jehovah it hath been to strengthen their heart, to meet in battle with Israel, in order to devote them, so that they have no grace, but in order to destroy them, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

in order to try Israel by them, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept `it' or not.'

לְמַ֛עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

(only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel's knowing, to teach them war, only those who formerly have not known them) --

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so as”

And Saul saith, `From Amalek they have brought them, because the people had pity on the best of the flock, and of the herd, in order to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God, and the remnant we have devoted.'

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

And Eliab, his eldest brother, heareth when he speaketh unto the men, and the anger of Eliab burneth against David, and he saith, `Why `is' this -- thou hast come down! and to whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I have known thy pride, and the evil of thy heart -- for, to see the battle thou hast come down.'

לְמַ֛עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

And Jonadab saith to him, `Lie down on thy couch, and feign thyself sick, and thy father hath come in to see thee, and thou hast said unto him, `Let, I pray thee, Tamar my sister come in and give me bread to eat; and she hath made the food before mine eyes so that I see `it', and have eaten from her hand.'

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”

and kept the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commands, and His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, so that thou dost wisely all that thou dost, and whithersoever thou turnest,

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

so that Jehovah doth establish His word which He spake unto me, saying, If thy sons observe their way to walk before Me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul; saying, There is not cut off a man of thine from the throne of Israel.

לְמַעַן֩ le.ma.'An “so that”

so that they fear Thee all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”

`And also, unto the stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and hath come from a land afar off for Thy name's sake --

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

Thou dost hear in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast done according to all that the stranger calleth unto Thee for, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thy people Israel, and to know that Thy name hath been called on this house which I have builded.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

for all the peoples of the earth knowing that Jehovah, He `is' God; there is none else;

לְמַ֗עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

`Only, in thy days I do it not, for the sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son I rend it;

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

only all the kingdom I do not rend away; one tribe I give to thy son, for the sake of David My servant, and for the sake of Jerusalem, that I have chosen.'

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”וּלְמַ֥עַן (לְמַ֥עַן) le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

and the one tribe he hath for My servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have fixed on, out of all the tribes of Israel.

לְמַ֣עַן׀ le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”וּלְמַ֙עַן֙ (לְמַ֙עַן֙) le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

`And I do not take the whole of the kingdom out of his hand, for prince I make him all days of his life, for the sake of David My servant whom I chose, who kept My commands and My statutes;

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

and to his son I give one tribe, for there being a lamp to David My servant all the days before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to Myself to put My name there.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

and I humble the seed of David for this; only, not all the days.'

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “on account of”

and the king hearkened not unto the people, for the revolution was from Jehovah, in order to establish His word that Jehovah spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam son of Nebat.

לְמַ֜עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

but for David's sake hath Jehovah his God given to him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

and Jehovah was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, as He said to him, to give to him a lamp -- to his sons all the days.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “for [the] sake of”

and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests, call ye unto me; let not a man be lacking, for a great sacrifice I have for Baal; every one who is lacking -- he doth not live;' and Jehu hath done `it' in subtilty, in order to destroy the servants of Baal.

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”