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 land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so as”

When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste 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 cut 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 shall come; and they shall know that I [ergänzt: 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, in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with astonishment, because her land shall be left desolate of all that is in it, for the violence of all them that dwell therein.

לְמַ֜עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

that I may take the house of Israel by 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 make themselves any more unclean with all their transgressions; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, saith the Lord Jehovah.

לְ֠מַעַן Le.ma.'an “so that”

that thou mayest bear thy confusion, and mayest be confounded for all that thou hast done, in that thou comfortest them.

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so that”

that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I forgive thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.

לְמַ֤עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

And they put him in a cage with nose-rings, 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 whom they were, in whose sight I had 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 had brought them out.

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

But 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 had brought them out.

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

and I defiled them by their own gifts, in that they devoted all that opened the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I [ergänzt: am] Jehovah.

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

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

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

It is sharpened for sore slaughter, it is furbished that it may glitter. Shall we then make mirth, [ergänzt: saying,] The sceptre of my son contemneth all wood?

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

In order that the heart may melt, and the stumbling-blocks be multiplied, I have set the threatening sword against all their gates: ah! it is made glittering, it is whetted for the slaughter.

לְמַ֣עַן׀ le.Ma.'an “so as”

And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus speaketh the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and thou shalt say, A sword, a sword is drawn; for the slaughter is it furbished, that it may consume, that it may glitter:

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “on account of”

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

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

In thee there have been slanderous men to shed blood; and in thee have they eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness;

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

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

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

And thou didst look back to the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy teats by the Egyptians, for the breasts of thy youth.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “on account of”