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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 2 / 2 (Isa 5:4–Mal 2:10)

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:4 -

“What more was there to do for My vineyard [fn]that I have not done in it?

Why H4069, when I hoped for it to produce good grapes did it produce [fn]worthless ones?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 -

“Why H4069 was there no man when I came?

When I called, why was there none to answer?

Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom?

Or have I no power to deliver?

Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke;

I make the rivers a wilderness;

Their fish stink for lack of water

And die of thirst.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:2 -

Why H4069 is Your clothing red,

And Your garments like the one who treads in the wine press?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 -

“Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homeborn slave?

Why H4069 has he become plunder?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 -

“O generation, [fn]behold the word of Yahweh.

Have I been a wilderness to Israel

Or a land of thick darkness?

Why H4069 do My people say, ‘We are free to roam;

We will no longer come to You’?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:5 -

“Why H4069 then has this people, Jerusalem,

[fn]Turned away in continual faithlessness?

They hold fast to deceit;

They refuse to return.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 -

Behold, the sound! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land:

“Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”

“Why H4069 have they provoked Me to anger with their graven images, with foreign [fn]idols?”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:22 -

Is there no balm in Gilead?

Is there no physician there?

Why H4069 then has not the [fn]health of the daughter of my people gone up?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:1 -

Righteous are You, O Yahweh, when I would plead my case with You;

Indeed I would speak matters of justice with You:

Why H4069 has the way of the wicked succeeded?

Why are all those who deal in treachery complacent?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:22 -

“If you say in your heart,

‘Why H4069 have these things happened to me?’

Because of the magnitude of your iniquity

Your skirts have been uncovered

And your heels have suffered violence.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:19 -

Have You completely rejected Judah?

Or [fn]have You loathed Zion?

Why H4069 have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us?

We hoped for peace, but there was no good;

And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:28 -

“Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar?

Or is he an undesirable vessel?

Why H4069 have he and his seed been hurled out

And cast into a land that they had not known?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - “Why H4069 have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be laid waste, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered about Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:6 -

‘Ask now, and see

If a male can give birth.

Why H4069 do I see every man

With his hands on his loins, as a woman in childbirth?

And why have all faces turned pale?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:3 - because Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why H4069 do you prophesy, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29 - “And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why H4069 have you written on it [fn]that the king of Babylon will certainly come and make this land a ruin and will make man and beast to cease from it?’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:5 -

“Why H4069 have I seen it?

They are shattered;

They are drawing back,

And their mighty men are crushed

And have fled to refuge,

Without facing back;

[fn]Terror is on every side!”

Declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:15 -

“Why H4069 are your mighty ones thrown down?

They do not stand because Yahweh has thrust them down.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1 -

Concerning the sons of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh:

“Does Israel have no sons?

Or has he no one who can take possession?

Why H4069 then has [fn]Malcam taken possession of Gad

And his people settled in its cities?

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:19 -

“Yet you say, ‘Why H4069 should the son not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity?’ But the son has done justice and righteousness and has kept all My statutes and done them. He shall surely live.

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:10 -

“Do we not all have one father? Has not one God created us? Why H4069 do we deal treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?


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