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2 Kings 22:19

“Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

יַעַןyaʻan · yah'-an
H3282 · Hebrew

Definition: properly, heed; by implication, purpose (sake or account); used adverbially to indicate the reason or cause
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to pay attention;
KJV renderings: because (that), forasmuch ([phrase] as), seeing then, [phrase] that, [phrase] wheras, [phrase] why.
Grammar: יַ֠עַן — conjunction
Code HC
Usage: Occurs 99 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 22:16 Leviticus 26:43 Leviticus 26:43 Numbers 11:20 Numbers 20:12

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Verse 18 Verse 20

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.