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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 expected it to produce good grapes did it produce [fn]worthless ones?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 -

“Why H4069 was there no one when I came?

When I called, why was there no one to answer?

Is My hand so short that it cannot redeem?

Or do I have no power to rescue?

Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke,

I turn rivers into a wilderness;

Their fish stink for lack of water,

And die of thirst.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:2 -

Why H4069 is Your apparel red,

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 -

“Is Israel a slave? Or is he a servant born in the home?

Why H4069 has he become plunder?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 -

“You generation, look to the word of the LORD.

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 has this people, Jerusalem,

Turned away in continual apostasy?

They hold on to deceit,

They refuse to return.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 -

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

“Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”

“Why H4069 have they provoked Me with their carved 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 [fn]been restored?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:1 -

Righteous are You, LORD, when I plead my case with You;

Nevertheless I would discuss matters of justice with You:

Why H4069 has the way of the wicked prospered?

Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?

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 wrongdoing

Your skirts have been removed

And your [fn]heels have suffered violence.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:19 -

Have You completely rejected Judah?

Or have [fn]You loathed Zion?

Why H4069 have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing?

We waited for peace, but nothing good came;

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 descendants 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 the LORD, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh and this city will be in ruins, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered to Jeremiah at the house of the LORD.
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 waist, as a woman in childbirth?

And why have all faces turned pale?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:3 - because Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, “Why H4069 do you prophesy, saying, ‘This is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am going to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will take it;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29 - “And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘This is what the LORD says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why H4069 have you written on it [fn]that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make mankind and animals disappear from it?’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:5 -

“Why H4069 have I seen it?

They are terrified,

They are retreating,

And their warriors are defeated

And have taken refuge in flight,

Without facing back.

[fn]Terror is on every side!”

Declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:15 -

“Why H4069 have your powerful ones been cut down?

They do not stand because the LORD has thrust them away.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1 -

Concerning the sons of Ammon. This is what the LORD says:

“Does Israel have no sons?

Or has he no heirs?

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 suffer the punishment for the father’s guilt?’ When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has kept all My statutes and done them, he shall certainly live.

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:10 -

Do we not all have one Father? Is it not one God who has 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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