Sake
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Genesis 3:17
- Last Reference: Revelation 2:3
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1558 Used 3 times
- H1697 Used 1 time
- H182 Used 1 time
- H4616 Used 45 times
- H5668 Used 15 times
- H5921 Used 2 times
- H7945 Used 1 time
- H8478 Used 2 times
- H854 Used 1 time
- G1223 Used 35 times
- G1722 Used 1 time
- G1752 Used 14 times
- G3450 Used 1 time
- G5228 Used 6 times
- G5484 Used 1 time
SAKE, noun [Heb. to press or oppress. The primary sense is to strain, urge, press or drive forward, and this is from the same root as seek, essay and Latin sequor, whence we have pursue and prosecute. We have analogous words in cause, thing, and the Latin res.]
1. Final cause; end; purpose; or rather the purpose of obtaining. I open a window for the sake of air, that is, to obtain it, for the purpose of obtaining air. I read for the sake of instruction, that is, to obtain it. sake then signifies primarily effort to obtain, and secondarily purpose of obtaining. The hero fights for the sake of glory; men labor for the sake of subsistence or wealth.
2. Account; regard to any person or thing.
I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake Genesis 8:21.
Save me for thy mercies' sake Psalms 6:4.
SA'KER, noun
1. A hawk; a species of falcon.
2. A piece of artillery.
SAK'ERET, noun The male of the sakerhawk.