εἵνεκεν
on account of, for the sake of
Where this word appears
Every passage where εἵνεκεν appears in the Greek Septuagint — 9 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 18:5 εἵνεκεν And I will bring bread, and you⌃ shall eat, and after this you⌃ shall depart on your journey, on account of which refreshment you⌃ have turned aside to your servant. And he said, So do, as you have said.
- Genesis 19:8 εἵνεκεν But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, and do you⌃ use them as it may please you, only do not injury to these men, to avoid which they came under the shelter of my roof.
- Genesis 22:16 εἵνεκεν surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and your seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.
- Genesis 38:26 εἵνεκεν And Judas knew them, and said, Thamar is cleared rather than I, forasmuch as I gave her not to Selom my son: and he knew her not again.
- Numbers 10:31 εἵνεκεν And he said, Leave us not, because you have been with us in the wilderness, and you shall be an elder among us.
- Numbers 14:43 εἵνεκεν For Amalec and the Chananite are there before you, and you⌃ shall fall by the sword; because you⌃ have disobeyed the Lord and turned aside, and the Lord will not be among you.
- 2 Samuel 18:20 εἵνεκεν And Joab said to him, You shall not be a messenger of glad tidings this day; you shall bear them another day; but on this day you shall bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead.
- Isaiah 61:1 εἵνεκεν The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me; he has sent me to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind;
- Lamentations 3:44 εἵνεκεν You have veiled yourself with a cloud because of prayer, that I might be blind,
About this word
About this word
εἵνεκεν (heíneken), “on account of, for the sake of,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 9 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
