ενεκα
for
‘for’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Preposition
- A relational word governing a noun in a particular case.
Every verse where G1752 appears in the Book of Luke — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
- Luke 4:18 εἵνεκεν prep "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, Because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim release to the captives, Recovering of sight to the blind, To deliver those who are crushed,
- Luke 6:22 ἕνεκα prep Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
- Luke 9:24 ἕνεκεν prep For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.
- Luke 18:29 ἕνεκεν prep He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,
- Luke 21:12 ἕνεκεν prep But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ενεκα — transliterated héneka — is a Greek preposition carrying the sense “for.” Debuting at Matthew 5:10, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 23 verses across 6 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Matthew. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1752 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 23
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 23 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #513
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 513 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 23 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 23 distinct verses.
- Gospels 16 verses · 70%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 35%
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sake 11×, For 7×, Cause 4×
- American Standard Version: For 16×, Sake 7×, Cause 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sake 6×, Of 4×, Reason 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sake 8×, For 7×, Of 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1752 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1752 across 35 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1752 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1752 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- on account of, for the sake of, for
- for this cause, therefore
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Of uncertain affinity; on account of : - because for (cause sake) (where-) fore by reason of that.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G1752 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἕνεκεν héneken | Preposition | Matthew 5:10 | 18 |
| ἕνεκα héneka | Preposition | Matthew 19:5 | 5 |
| εἵνεκεν heíneken | Preposition | Luke 4:18 | 3 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ενεκα appears 24 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 23 verses in 8 books.
- 24
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 23
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 12:21 ἕνεκα
- 1 Kings 9:8 ἕνεκα
- Psalms 5:9 ἕνεκα
- Proverbs 7:15 ἕνεκα
- Ezekiel 21:12 ἕνεκα
- Daniel 9:19 ἕνεκα
- Hosea 13:6 ἕνεκα
- Amos 1:11 ἕνεκα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1752) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Samuel 12:21 ἕνεκα Then said his servants to him, What thing is this that you have done? you did fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, you did rise and eat bread.
- 1 Kings 9:8 ἕνεκα Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?
- Psalms 5:9 ἕνεκα For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
- Psalms 8:3 ἕνεκα When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
- Psalms 24:7 ἕνεκα Lift up your heads, you gates; Be lifted up, you everlasting doors: The King of glory will come in.
- Psalms 24:11 ἕνεκα
- Psalms 26:11 ἕνεκα But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
- Psalms 43:23 ἕνεκα
- Psalms 68:8 ἕνεκα The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai-- At the presence of God, the God of Israel.
- Psalms 68:19 ἕνεκα Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, Even the God who is our salvation. Selah.
- Psalms 78:9 ἕνεκα The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
- Psalms 121:8 ἕνεκα Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, From this time forth, and forevermore.
- Psalms 121:9 ἕνεκα
- Psalms 142:11 ἕνεκα
- Proverbs 7:15 ἕνεκα Therefore I came out to meet you, To diligently seek your face, And I have found you.
- Ezekiel 21:12 ἕνεκα Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.
- Ezekiel 40:4 ἕνεκα The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, are you brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 44:12 ἕνεκα Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.
- Daniel 9:19 ἕνεκα Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don't defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.
- Hosea 13:6 ἕνεκα According to their pasture, so were they filled; They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
- Amos 1:11 ἕνεκα Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because he pursued his brother with the sword, And cast off all pity, And his anger raged continually, And he kept his wrath forever;
- Amos 2:4 ἕνεκα Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have rejected Yahweh's law, And have not kept his statutes, And their lies have led them astray, After which their fathers walked;
- Amos 6:10 ἕνεκα "When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the name of Yahweh.'
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1752) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
