ἕνεκεν (heneken)

ἕνεκεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἕνεκα, meaning “on account of, for the sake of (+gen.)”. It is the preposition.

Found 425 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.364: σῶν ἕνεκεν καμάτων, ἵνα μοι σόος ἀμφί τε βουσὶν

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 29.37: νῦν μὲν κἠπὶ τὰ χρύσεα μᾶλʼ ἔνεκεν σέθεν

New Testament, Romans 8.36: καθὼς γέγραπται ὅτι Ἕνεκεν σοῦ θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν, ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς.

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.