1. The word by which a reason is introduced of something before advanced. ""That ye may be the children of your father who is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good."" In such sentences, for has the sense of because, by reason that, as in Num 14; with this difference that in Num 14, the word precedes a single noun, and here it precedes a sentence or clause; but the phrase See ms to be elliptical, for this cause or reason, which follows, he maketh his sun to rise, _c. In Rom 13:6, we find the word in both its applications, ""For, for this cause ye pay tribute also -;"" the first for referring to the sentence following; the latter to the noun cause.

2. Because; on this account that; properly, for that.

For as much, compounded, forasmuch, is equivalent to, in regard to that, in consideration of. Forasmuch as the thirst is intolerable, the patient may be indulged in a little drink.