Limitless Word
מַעַןmaʻan/mah'-an/
HebrewH46169 occurrences (KJV)

properly, heed, i.e. purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that

KJV renders it: because of, to the end (intent) that, for (to,... 's sake), [phrase] lest, that, to.

Where it appears

  • Gen 12:13Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”
  • Gen 18:24What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
  • Gen 50:20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.
  • Exod 8:22I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth.
  • 1 Kgs 8:41“Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake
  • 2 Kgs 13:23But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.
  • Ps 125:3For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
  • Jer 43:3but Baruch the son of Neriah has turned you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.”
  • Ezek 40:4The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, you are brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.