H4616–מַ֫עַן–ma.an

Why causest Thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from Thy ways? Thou hardenest our heart from Thy fear, Turn back for Thy servants' sake, The tribes of Thine inheritance.

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

Thus said Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one hath said, `Destroy it not for a blessing `is' in it,' So I do for My servants' sake, not to destroy the whole.

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

Hear a word of Jehovah, Ye who are trembling unto His word, Said have your brethren who are hating you, Who are driving you out, for My name's sake: `Honoured is Jehovah, and we look on your joy,' But they are ashamed.

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

So that ye suck, and have been satisfied, From the breast of her consolations, So that ye wring out, and have delighted yourselves From the abundance of her honour.

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

Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

And ye have come in and stood before Me, In this house on which My name is called, And have said, `We have been delivered,' In order to do all these abominations.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

The sons are gathering wood, And the fathers are causing the fire to burn, And the women are kneading dough, To make cakes to the queen of the heavens, And to pour out libations to other gods, So as to provoke Me to anger.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Me are they provoking to anger? an affirmation of Jehovah, Is it not themselves, For the shame of their own faces?

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

But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye -- ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

For thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, And have been an adversary to them, So that they are found out.

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

In order to establish the oath that I have sworn to your fathers, To give to them a land flowing with milk and honey, as this day. And I answer and say, `Amen, O Jehovah.'

לְמַעַן֩ le.ma.'An “so as”

Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.

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

Do not despise, for Thy name's sake, Dishonour not the throne of Thine honour, Remember, break not Thy covenant with us.

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

And ye have not hearkened unto Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- so as to provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands for evil to you.

לְמַ֧עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

For falsehood they are prophesying to you, so as to remove you far from off your ground, and I have driven you out, and ye have perished.

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

For I have not sent them -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and they are prophesying in My name falsely, so as to drive you out, and ye have perished, ye, and the prophets who are prophesying to you.'

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

`Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Take these books, this purchase-book, both the sealed one and the open one, and thou hast put them in an earthen vessel, that they may remain many days;

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

And come in have the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city, and they have set this city on fire, and have burned it, and the houses on whose roofs they made perfume to Baal, and poured out libations to other gods, so as to provoke Me to anger.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

And they build the high places of Baal, that `are' in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come up on my heart to do this abomination, so as to cause Judah to sin.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

and a house ye do not build, and seed ye do not sow, and a vineyard ye do not plant, nor have ye any; for in tents do ye dwell all your days, that ye may live many days on the face of the ground whither ye are sojourning.

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

if so be the house of Israel do hear all the evil that I am thinking of doing to them, so that they turn back each from is evil way, and I have been propitious to their iniquity, and to their sin.'

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

Whether good or evil, to the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we are sending thee, we do hearken; because it is good for us when we hearken to the voice of Jehovah our God.'

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”

for Baruch son of Neriah is moving thee against us, in order to give us up into the hand of the Chaldeans, to put us to death, and to remove us to Babylon.'

לְמַעַן֩ le.ma.'An “so as”

by provoking Me to anger by the works of your hands, by making perfume to other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are going in to sojourn, so as to cut yourselves off, and so as to your being for a reviling and for a reproach among all nations of the earth?

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

`And this `is' to you the sign -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- that I am seeing after you in this place, so that ye know that My words are certainly established against you for evil;

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”