ἕνεκεν G1752

Home gloss

on account of; because (οὗ εἵνεκεν)

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

therefore / because

Note

"On account of this" (2:24; Matt 19:5); the construction οὗ εἵνεκεν is "because" (22:16; 147f)

Rulings

2, 147

Declared to share English with

G1360 — false clash: διότι 'because' / οὗ εἵνεκεν 'because' (a construction of ἕνεκεν, 147f)

Occurrences (15)

2:24 On account of this a man shall leave behind his father and his mother, and shall be glued to his woman; and the two shall be one flesh.

12:13 Say then that 'I am his sister', so that it may come to be well with me for your sake, and my soul shall live on account of you."

16:14 On account of this one called the well Well Where I Saw Face to Face; look, it is between Kadesh and between Bered.

18:5 And I will take bread, and you shall eat; and after this you shall pass by into your way, on account of which you turned aside to your servant." And he said, "Thus do, just as you have said."
18:24 If there be fifty in the city, just ones, will you destroy them? Will you not let go the place on account of the fifty just, if they be in it?
18:28 But if the fifty just be lessened by five, will you destroy on account of the five all the city?" And he said, "I will not destroy, if I find there forty five."
18:29 And he added further to speak to him, and said, "But if forty be found there?" And he said, "I will not destroy, on account of the forty."
18:31 And he said, "Inasmuch as I have to speak to the Lord: but if twenty be found there?" And he said, "I will not destroy, on account of the twenty."
18:32 And he said, "Let it not be anything, Lord, if I speak further once: but if ten be found there?" And he said, "I will not destroy, on account of the ten."

19:8 But I have two daughters who have not come to know a man. I will bring them out to you, and use them even as it pleases you; only to these men do not do anything unjust, on account of which they entered under the roof of my beams."
19:20 Look, this city is near for me to flee for refuge there, which is small; there I shall be saved—is it not small?—and my soul shall live on account of you."

20:6 Now God said to him in sleep, "I too came to know that in a clean heart you did this, and I spared you, so that you should not sin against me; on account of this I did not let you touch her.
20:11 Now Abraham said, "For I said, 'Then there is no reverence for God in this place, and me they will kill on account of my woman.'
20:18 for the Lord had shut up from outside every womb in the house of Abimelech, on account of Sarah, the woman of Abraham.

22:16 "By myself I have sworn," says the Lord, "because you have done this word, and have not spared your son, the beloved, because of me,