H4616–מַ֫עַן–ma.an

Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah 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, saith Jehovah.

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 mine 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 whither they come; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

and say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah 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, [ergänzt: and despoiled] of 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 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, saith the Lord Jehovah.

לְ֠מַעַן Le.ma.'an “so that”

that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be ashamed because of all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto 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 have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.

לְמַ֤עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

And 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 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 in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of 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 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 wrought 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 [ergänzt: the fire] all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.

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

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

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 contemneth 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”

And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say thou, 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, every one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

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

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

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

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “on account of”