1. לְמען
לְמען טוב לְכֶם Dt 539, YoY טוב לו he is well with you
The corpus record — Hebrew
לְמַ֨עַן֙
maan
לְמען טוב לְכֶם Dt 539, YoY טוב לו he is well with you
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 272 · 8.87/10k
Senses
2. מַ֫עַן
purpose, intent, for the sake of, on account of, to the intent, in order that
3. מַעַן
properly, heed, i.e. purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
Attestations
- לְמַ֨עַן֙ Genesis 12:13 (BHS)
- לְמַעַן֩ Genesis 18:19 (BHS)
- לְמַ֗עַן Genesis 18:19 (BHS)
- לְמַ֛עַן Genesis 18:24 (BHS)
- לְמַ֥עַן Genesis 27:25 (BHS)
- לְמַ֗עַן Genesis 37:22 (BHS)
6 of 272 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.