Because
אוֹדָהStrong’s H0182odah (o-dah)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Odah is the Hebrew word usually translated “causes of”, “causes my” and “causes your”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.”
Meaning
- Causecause, reason for · the occasion of
How it's translated
- causes of 8
- causes my 1
- causes your 1
- causes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Numbers 2
- Exodus 1
- Joshua 1
- Judges 1
- 2 Samuel 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 21:25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
- Genesis 26:32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
- Exodus 18:8And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
- Numbers 12:1And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
- Numbers 13:24The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
- Joshua 14:6Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
Hebrew dictionary
אוֹדָה odah · because
1) cause 1a) cause, reason for 1b) the occasion of
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cause” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CAUSE, noun
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- A suit or action in court; any legal process which a party institutes to obtain his demand, or by which he seeks his right or his supposed right.“The cause of both parties shall come before the judges” Exodus 22:9
- That which produces an effect; that which impels into existence, or by its agency or operation produces what did not before exist; that by virtue of which any thing is done; that from which any thing proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
- The reason or motive that urges, moves, or impels the mind to act or decide.“For this cause have I raised up Pharaoh” Exodus 9:16“And David said, is there not a cause?” 1 Samuel 17:29
- Sake; account.“I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong. [See Sake.]” 2 Corinthians 7:12
All definitions and other forms of “cause”
- That which a party or nation pursues; or rather pursuit, prosecution of an object.
- Without cause without good reason; without a reason or motive to justify the act.“They hate me without cause” Psalms 69:4
CAUSE, verb transitive
- To produce; to bring into existence.“They caused great joy to all the brethren” Acts 15:3
- To effect by agency, power or influence.“I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days” Genesis 7:4“I will cause him to fall by the sword” 2 Kings 19:7
CAUSE, verb intransitive
To assign insufficient cause
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.