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CAUSE

kos: In both the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "for this cause" (the King James Version "cause") occurs in Ex 9:16 as the rendering of ba`abhur zo'th = "in order that"; "to the end that"; so also in Dan 2:12 for kol-qebhel denah, and in 2 Ch 32:20 the King James Version for `al-zo'th, where RVS read "because of." In the New Testament the word is used adverbially in the translation of several Greek phrases: heneka toutou (Mt 19:5; Mk 10:7); dia touto, Jn 12:27; Rom 1:26; 13:6; 15:9 (the Revised Version (British and American) "therefore"); 1 Cor 11:30; 1 Thess 2:13; 2 Thess 2:11; 1 Tim 1:16; Hebrew 9:15; eis touto, Jn 18:37 (where the King James Version varying the phraseology reads "to this end" "for this cause"); 1 Pet 4:6 the King James Version; toutou charin, Eph 3:14. Unusual renderings occur, as "for his cause" (= "because of"), 2 Cor 7:12; as = "affair," "thing," obsolete in the King James Version 1 Ki 12:15; 2 Ch 10:15, where the word occurs as a paraphrase of necibbah (= "turn of affairs"). In 1 Sam 25:31 (King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American)) "causeless" (= without cause the American Standard Revised Version) occurs arbitrarily in adverb sense.
W. N. Stearns
Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Definition for 'cause'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". bible-history.com - ISBE; 1915.

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