H4616–מַ֫עַן–ma.an

Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

לְמַ֙עַן֙ le.Ma.'an “so as”

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, 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 astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

In all your dwellingplaces 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 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 heathen 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 of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from 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 be polluted 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 confounded in 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 am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

לְמַ֤עַן le.Ma.'an “so that”

And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, 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 polluted before the heathen, among whom 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 polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

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

Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, 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 the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, 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 wicked 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 to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as 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 faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

לְמַ֣עַן׀ le.Ma.'an “so as”

And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:

לְמַ֥עַן le.Ma.'an “on account of”

Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit 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 greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, 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, to get dishonest gain.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “so as”

Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

לְמַ֖עַן le.Ma.'an “on account of”