ἕνεκεν

Where this word appears

A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἕνεκεν appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 86 total occurrences). 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 2:24 ἕνεκεν Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
• Exodus 9:16 ἕνεκεν And for this purpose have you been preserved, that I might display in you my strength, and that my name might be published in all the earth.
• Numbers 12:1 ἕνεκεν And Mariam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of the Ethiopian woman whom Moses took; for he had taken an Ethiopian woman.
• Deuteronomy 3:26 ἕνεκεν And the Lord because of you did not regard me, and listened not to me; and the Lord said to me, Let it suffice you, speak not of this matter to me any more.
• Joshua 22:24 ἕνεκεν But we have done this for the sake of precaution concerning this thing, saying, Lest hereafter your sons should say to our sons, What have you⌃ to do with the Lord God of Israel?
• 2 Samuel 6:12 ἕνεκεν And it was reported to king David, saying, The Lord has blessed the house of Abeddara, and all that he has, because of the ark of the Lord. And David went, and brought up the Ark of the Lord from the house of Abeddara to the city of David with gladness.
• Psalms 6:5 ἕνεκεν For in death no man remembers you: and who will give you thanks in Hades?
• Isaiah 5:23 ἕνεκεν who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of the righteous.
• Jeremiah 5:19 ἕνεκεν And it shall come to pass, when you⌃ shall say, Therefore has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you shall say to them, Because you⌃ served strange gods in your land, so shall you⌃ serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
• Ezekiel 7:20 ἕνεκεν As for their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations: therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.
• Daniel 2:30 ἕνεκεν Moreover, this mystery has not been revealed to me by reason of wisdom which is in me beyond all others living, but for the sake of making known the interpretation to the king, that you might know the thoughts of your heart.
• Amos 1:6 ἕνεκεν Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut them up into Idumea.
• Jonah 1:7 ἕνεκεν And each man said to his neighbor, Come, let us cast lots, and find out for whose sake this mischief is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas.
• Micah 1:8 ἕνεκεν Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and being naked she shall make lamentation as that of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.
• Habakkuk 1:4 ἕνεκεν Therefore the law is frustrated, and judgment proceeds not effectually, for the ungodly man prevails over the just; therefore perverse judgment will proceed.
• Zephaniah 3:19 ἕνεκεν Behold, I will work in you for your sake at that time, says the Lord: and I will save her that was oppressed, and receive her that was rejected; and I will make them a praise, and honored in all the earth.
• Haggai 2:14 ἕνεκεν And Aggaeus said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled.
• Malachi 2:14 ἕνεκεν Yet you⌃ said, Therefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have forsaken, and yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.