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Joel 3:6

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Masoretic Text 1524

H1121 The children ובני

H3063 also of Judah יהודה

H1121 and the children ובני

H3389 of Jerusalem ירושׁלם

H4376 have ye sold מכרתם

H1121 לבני

H3125 היונים

H4616 unto the Grecians that למען

H7368 ye might remove them far הרחיקם

H5921 מעל

H1366 their border גבולם׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

The

H1121 children

also

H3063 Judah

and

the

H1121 children

H3389 Jerusalem

have

H4376 sold

unto

the

Grecians

H4616 that

might

remove

them

H7368 far

H4480 from

their

H1366 border

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H4616

Hebrew: מַעַן

Transliteration: maʻan

Pronunciation: mah'-an

Bible Usage: because {of} to the end (intent) {that} for ({to} . . . ‘s {sake}) + {lest} {that} to.

Definition:

properly {heed} that {is} purpose; used only {adverbially} on account of (as a motive or an {aim}) teleologically in order that

1. purpose, intent prep

a. for the sake of

b. in view of, on account of

c. for the purpose of, to the intent that, in order to conj

d. to the end that

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906