# H4616 מַעַן

מַעַן (maʻan), Strong’s H4616: 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…

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*maʻan* — 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.

Derived from [עָנָה ʻânâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H6030) (to eye)

Occurs 272 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 12:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=13) — 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.”
- [Genesis 18:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=19) — For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the…
- [Genesis 18:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=24) — What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who…
- [Genesis 27:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=25) — 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…
- [Genesis 37:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=22) — 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…
- [Genesis 50:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/50?v=20) — As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
- [Exodus 1:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=11) — Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh…
- [Exodus 4:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=5) — “This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and…
- [Exodus 8:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=6) — Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like…
- [Exodus 8:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=18) — 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…