conj 1) because, therefore, because that, on account of prep 2) because of, on account of 3) why (with interrogative pron)
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H3282 — יַעַן
ya.an · because · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 22:16 · יַ֚עַןsaying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,Leviticus 26:43 · יַ֣עַן · וּבְיַ֔עַןFor the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.Numbers 11:20 · יַ֗עַןbut for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”Numbers 20:12 · יַ֚עַןBut the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”Deuteronomy 1:36 · יַ֕עַןexcept Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”Joshua 14:14 · יַ֚עַןTherefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.Judges 2:20 · יַעַן֩So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,1 Samuel 15:23 · יַ֗עַןFor rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”1 Samuel 30:22 · יַ֚עַןbut all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”1 Kings 3:11 · יַעַן֩So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies—but you have asked for discernment to administer justice—1 Kings 8:18 · יַ֗עַןBut the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.1 Kings 11:11 · יַ֚עַןThen the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.1 Kings 11:33 · יַ֣עַן׀For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.1 Kings 13:21 · יַ֗עַןand the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,1 Kings 14:7 · יַ֛עַןGo, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.1 Kings 14:13 · יַ֣עַןAll Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.1 Kings 14:15 · יַ֗עַןFor the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.1 Kings 16:2 · יַ֗עַן“Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins.1 Kings 20:28 · יַ֠עַןThen the man of God approached the king of Israel and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because the Arameans have said that the LORD is a god of the hills and not of the valleys, I will deliver all this great army into your hand. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”1 Kings 20:36 · יַ֚עַןThen the prophet said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, as soon as you depart from me a lion will kill you.” And when he left, a lion found him and killed him.1 Kings 20:42 · יַ֛עַןAnd the prophet said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have let slip from your hand the man I had devoted to destruction, your life will be exchanged for his life, and your people for his people.’”1 Kings 21:20 · יַ֚עַןWhen Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.1 Kings 21:29 · יַ֜עַן“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”2 Kings 1:16 · יַ֜עַןAnd Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.”2 Kings 10:30 · יַ֤עַןNevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”2 Kings 19:28 · יַ֚עַןBecause your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’2 Kings 21:11 · יַעַן֩“Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,2 Kings 21:15 · יַ֗עַןbecause they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”2 Kings 22:19 · יַ֠עַןbecause your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.2 Chronicles 1:11 · יַ֣עַןGod said to Solomon, “Since this was in your heart instead of requesting riches or wealth or honor for yourself or death for your enemies—and since you have not even requested long life but have asked for wisdom and knowledge to govern My people over whom I have made you king—2 Chronicles 6:8 · יַ֗עַןBut the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.2 Chronicles 34:27 · יַ֠עַןbecause your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.Psalm 109:16 · יַ֗עַןFor he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.Proverbs 1:24 · יַ֣עַןBecause you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,Isaiah 3:16 · יַ֚עַןThe LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—Isaiah 7:5 · יַ֗עַןFor Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted your ruin, saying:Isaiah 8:6 · יַ֗עַן“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,Isaiah 29:13 · יַ֚עַןTherefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.Isaiah 30:12 · יַ֥עַןTherefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,Isaiah 37:29 · יַ֚עַןBecause your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’Isaiah 61:1 · יַ֡עַןThe Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,Isaiah 65:12 · יַ֤עַןI will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”Isaiah 66:4 · יַ֤עַןSo I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”Jeremiah 5:14 · יַ֚עַןTherefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.Jeremiah 7:13 · יַ֧עַןAnd now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,Jeremiah 19:4 · יַ֣עַן׀because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.Jeremiah 23:38 · יַ֧עַןBut if you claim, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ and I specifically told you not to make this claim,Jeremiah 25:8 · יַ֕עַןTherefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,Jeremiah 29:23 · יַ֡עַןFor they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”Jeremiah 29:25 · יַ֡עַןthis is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:Jeremiah 29:31 · יַ֡עַן“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,Jeremiah 35:17 · יַ֣עַןTherefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”Jeremiah 35:18 · יַ֚עַןThen Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,Jeremiah 48:7 · יַ֣עַןBecause you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.Hosea 8:1 · יַ֚עַןPut the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.Amos 5:11 · יַ֣עַןTherefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.Haggai 1:9 · יַ֣עַן · יַ֗עַןYou expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.