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Lexicon :: Strong's H4069 - madûaʿ

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מַדּוּעַ
Transliteration
madûaʿ
Pronunciation
mad-doo'-ah
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
From מָה (H4100) and the pass. participle of יָדַע (H3045)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 848h

Strong’s Definitions

מַדּוּעַ maddûwaʻ, mad-doo'-ah; or מַדֻּעַ madduaʻ; from H4100 and the passive participle of H3045; what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?:—how, wherefore, why.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's H4069 in the following manner: wherefore, why, how.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's H4069 in the following manner: wherefore, why, how.

  1. why?, on what account?, wherefore?

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַדּוּעַ maddûwaʻ, mad-doo'-ah; or מַדֻּעַ madduaʻ; from H4100 and the passive participle of H3045; what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?:—how, wherefore, why.
STRONGS H4069: Abbreviations
מַדּוּעַ 61 and (Exodus 18:19) מַדֻּעַ adverb wherefore? (probably contracted from מַהיָּֿדוּעַ what being known ? i.e. from what motive? so Ges Ew§325 c Ol§223 f, compare in Greek τί μαθών;) — wherefore? on what account ? Genesis 26:27 מַדּוּעַ בָּאתֶם אֵלָ֑י, Genesis 40:7; Exodus 1:18; 2:18; 3:8 (in an indirect question), Exodus 5:14; 18:14; Leviticus 10:17; Joshua 17:14 (all in Hexateuch), Judges 5:28 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 3:7; 11:10 etc., Isaiah 5:4; 50:2; 63:2 (all in Isaiah); in Jeremiah 16 times, oft, rhetorically, after a double question introduced by אִם֗֗֗הֲ, expressing affected surprise: † Jeremiah 2:14 (see Gf) is Israel a slave (unable to defend himself)? wherefore, then, is he become a prey? (some other cause must therefore be found for Israel's misfortune), Jeremiah 2:31; 8:5, 19, 22; 14:19; 22:28; 49:1, compare Jeremiah 30:6; Job 3:12; Job 18:8 (never in Psalms).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

26:27; 40:7

Exodus

1:18; 2:18; 3:8; 5:14; 18:14; 18:19

Leviticus

10:17

Joshua

17:14

Judges

5:28

2 Samuel

3:7; 11:10

Job

3:12; 18:8

Isaiah

5:4; 50:2; 63:2

Jeremiah

2:14; 2:31; 8:5; 8:19; 8:22; 14:19; 22:28; 30:6; 49:1

H4069

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4069 matches the Hebrew מַדּוּעַ (madûaʿ),
which occurs 72 times in 71 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 26:27–Job 33:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:27 - And Isaac said to them, “Why H4069 have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:7 - So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in confinement in his master’s house, saying, “Why H4069 are your faces so sad today?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why H4069 have you done this thing, and let the boys live?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:18 - Then they came to Reuel their father, and he said, “Why H4069 have you come back so soon today?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:3 - So Moses said, “[fn]I must turn aside now and see this [fn]marvelous sight. Why H4069 is the bush not burned up?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:14 - Moreover, the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten [fn]and were asked, “Why H4069 have you not completed your required amount either yesterday or today in making brick as previously?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:14 - And Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, so he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why H4069 do you alone sit as judge and all the people stand about you from morning until evening?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:17 - “Why H4069 did you not eat the sin offering at the holy place? For it is most holy, and [fn]He gave it to you to bear away the guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:8 -

With him I speak mouth to mouth,

Indeed clearly, and not in riddles,

And he beholds the form of Yahweh.

Why H4069 then were you not afraid

To speak against My servant, against Moses?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:3 - Then they assembled together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “[fn]You have gone far enough, for all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and Yahweh is in their midst; so why H4069 do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of Yahweh?”

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Then the sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why H4069 have you given me only one lot and one portion for an inheritance, since I am a numerous people whom Yahweh has thus far blessed?”

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“Out of the window she looked and lamented,

The mother of Sisera through the [fn]lattice,

‘Why H4069 does his chariot delay in coming?

Why H4069 do the [fn]hoofbeats of his chariots tarry?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:28 - Then Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is Zebul not his [fn]officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why H4069 should we serve him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - Then Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me from my father’s house? So why H4069 have you come to me now when you are in distress?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:26 - ‘While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns and in Aroer and its towns and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why H4069 did you not deliver them for yourself within that time?

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Then the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they crossed [fn]to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why H4069 did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon, but did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him, “Why H4069 have I found favor in your sight that you should take notice of me, though I am a foreigner?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:2 - And he said to him, “Far from it, you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without revealing it in my ear. So why H4069 should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:27 - Now it happened the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David’s place was missing; so Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why H4069 has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”

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Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech came trembling to meet David and said to him, “Why H4069 are you alone, and no one is with you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:7 - Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and [fn]Ish-bosheth said to Abner, “Why H4069 have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:10 - Then they told David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house.” And David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why H4069 did you not go down to your house?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:20 - and if it happens that the king’s wrath rises and he says to you, ‘Why H4069 did you approach the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - ‘Why H4069 have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:4 - And he said to him, “O son of the king, why H4069 are you so depressed morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” Then Amnon said to him, “I am in love with Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:10 - But the king said, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses, and if Yahweh has told him, ‘Curse David,’ then who shall say, ‘Why H4069 have you done so?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:11 - Then Joab said to the man who had told him, “Now behold, you saw him! Why H4069 then did you not strike him there to the ground? And I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a belt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:41

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:41 - And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, “Why H4069 had our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and caused the king and his household and all David’s men with him to pass over the Jordan?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - But the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, “[fn]We have ten parts in the king, therefore [fn]we also have more claim on David than you. Why H4069 then did you treat us with contempt? Was it not [fn]our word first to have [fn]our king return?” Yet the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21 - Then Araunah said, “Why H4069 has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be checked from being upon the people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:6 - But his father had never [fn]grieved him at any time by asking, “Why H4069 have you done so?” And he was also a very handsome man in form, and [fn]he was born after Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:13 - “Go [fn]at once to King David and say to him, ‘Have you not, my lord, O king, sworn to your maidservant, saying, “Surely Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne”? Why H4069 then has Adonijah become king?’

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And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished eating. Then Joab heard the sound of the trumpet and said, “Why H4069 is the sound of the city such an uproar?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43 - “Why H4069 then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the command which I have commanded you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:23 - And he said, “Why H4069 will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath.” And she said, “It is well.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - Then Hazael said, “Why H4069 does my lord weep?” Then he said, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their fortifications you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their infants you will dash in pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip up.”

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Now Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why H4069 did this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the man and his talk.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7 - Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests and said to them, “Why H4069 do you not repair the damages of the house? So now, take no more money from your acquaintances, but give it over to pay for the damages of the house.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:6 - So the king called for Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why H4069 have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the levy fixed by Moses the servant of Yahweh on the congregation of Israel for the tent of the testimony?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - So the king said to me, “Why H4069 is your face sad though you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - I said to the king, “Let the king live forever. Why H4069 should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste and its gates have been consumed by fire?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:11 - So I contended against the officials and said, “Why H4069 is the house of God forsaken?” Then I gathered them together and had them stand in their posts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:21 - Then I [fn]warned them and said to them, “Why H4069 do you spend the night in front of the wall? If you do so again, I will send forth my hand against you.” From that time on they did not come on the sabbath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:3 - So the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why H4069 do you trespass against the king’s command?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:12 -

“Why H4069 did the knees receive me,

And why the breasts, that I should suck?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:3 -

“Why H4069 are we regarded as beasts,

As dense in your eyes?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:4 -

“As for me, is my musing [fn]to man?

And why H4069 should [fn]I not be impatient?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:7 -

“Why H4069 do the wicked still live,

Continue on, also become very powerful?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:1 -

“Why H4069 are [fn]times not stored up by the Almighty,

And why do those who know Him not behold His days?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:13 -

“Why H4069 do you contend against Him?

For He does not give an answer for all His doings.


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