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 earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so as”

With their poison I will prepare their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may be convulsed, 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 appalled 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 b

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 the LORD.'

לְמַ֨עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

and say unto the people of the land: Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel. They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with appalment, that her land may be desolate from all that is ther

לְמַ֜עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all turned away 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 GOD.'

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 GOD.'

לְמַ֤עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; that they might bring him into strongholds, so 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 made Myself known unto them, so as to bring 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 set apart all that openeth the womb, that I might destroy them, 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 evil 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 that it may make a sore slaughter, it is furbished that it may glitter--or shall we make mirth? --against the rod of My son, contemning 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 melt, and their stumblings be multiplied; ah! it is made glittering, it is sharpened for slaughter.

לְמַ֣עַן׀ le.Ma.'an “so as”

And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their taunt; and say thou: O sword, O sword keen-edged, furbished for the slaughter, to the uttermost, because of the glitterings;

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “on account of”

Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his might, have been in thee to shed blood.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

In thee have been talebearers 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 gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten Me, saith the Lord GOD.

לְמַ֣עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey: to shed blood, and to destroy souls, so as to get dishonest gain.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Thus thou didst call to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, when they from Egypt bruised thy breasts for the bosom of thy youth.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “on account of”