H4616–מַ֫עַן–ma.an

Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so as”

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

לְמַעַן֩ le.ma.'An “so that”

That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”

But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

And say to the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with solicitude, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

לְמַ֜עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

לְמַ֛עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

That the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.

לְ֠מַעַן Le.ma.'an “so that”

That thou mayest bear thy own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort to them.

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”

That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

לְמַ֤עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

And they put him in custody in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

לְמַ֗עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth from the land of Egypt.

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

But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

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

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

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

And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all the first-born, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”

And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

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

It is sharpened to make a grievous slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”לְמַעַן־ le.ma.'an- “so as”

I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is sharpened for the slaughter.

לְמַ֣עַן׀ le.Ma.'an “so as”

And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “on account of”

Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained from thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, by being corrupted by the Egyptians in thy youth.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “on account of”