From an unused root meaning to pay attention; properly heed; by implication purpose (sake or account); used adverbially to indicate the reason or cause: - because ({that}) forasmuch (+ {as}) seeing {then} + {that} + {whereas} + why.
Lev 26:43The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: becauseH3282, even becauseH3282 they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Num 11:20But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: becauseH3282 that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? ▼
1Ki 8:18And the LORD said unto David my father, WhereasH3282 it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
1Ki 13:21And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch asH3282 thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
1Ki 14:7Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch asH3282 I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
1Ki 21:29Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? becauseH3282 he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
Isa 3:16¶ Moreover the LORD saith, BecauseH3282 the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: ▼▼
Isa 29:13¶ Wherefore the Lord said, ForasmuchH3282 as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Eze 12:12And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, thatH3282 he see not the ground with his eyes.
Eze 21:4SeeingH3282 then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
Amo 5:11ForasmuchH3282 therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. ▼
Hag 1:9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. BecauseH3282 of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. ▼