H4616–מַ֫עַן–ma.an

O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

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

Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.

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

Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy; but it is those who shall be disappointed.

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

that you may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

לְמַ֤עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”לְמַ֧עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; [supplied: do they] not [supplied: provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

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

but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk you in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [supplied: it].

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, Yahweh.

לְמַעַן֩ le.ma.'An “so as”

Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

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

Do not abhor [supplied: us], for your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don't break your covenant with us.

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

Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.

לְמַ֧עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days.

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through [supplied: the fire] to Molech; which I didn't command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn.

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”

but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.

לְמַעַן֩ le.ma.'An “so as”

in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are gone to sojourn; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so as”וּלְמַ֤עַן (לְמַ֤עַן) le.Ma.'an “so as”

This shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”