H4616–מַ֫עַן–ma.an

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

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so as”

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in 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 sun-images may be hewn 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 nations where they come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [supplied: and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who 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 go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh.

לְ֠מַעַן Le.ma.'an “so that”

that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.

לְמַ֤עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

לְמַ֗עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

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

But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

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

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, 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 [supplied: the fire] all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.

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

You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.

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

it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.

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

I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.

לְמַ֣עַן׀ le.Ma.'an “so as”

You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say you, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “on account of”

Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [supplied: and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “on account of”