{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4616",
  "lemma": "מַעַן",
  "transliteration": "maʻan",
  "definition": "properly, heed, i.e. purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that",
  "kjv": "because of, to the end (intent) that, for (to,... 's sake), [phrase] lest, that, to.",
  "occurrences": 272,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H6030",
      "lemma": "עָנָה",
      "transliteration": "ʻânâh",
      "meaning": "to eye",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H6030"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[מַ֫עַן] subst. purpose, intent, only with לְ, in לְמַ֫עַן 271 prep. and conj. for the sake of, on account of, to the intent or in order that"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 12:13",
      "text": "Please 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.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:19",
      "text": "For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:24",
      "text": "What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 27:25",
      "text": "He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:22",
      "text": "Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 50:20",
      "text": "As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/50?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 1:11",
      "text": "Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 4:5",
      "text": "“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 8:6",
      "text": "Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 8:18",
      "text": "I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=18"
    }
  ],
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}