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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)
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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 - Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:7 - So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:18 - When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:3 - So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:14 - And Pharaoh’s slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, “Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:14 - When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he said, “What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:17 - “Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the sanctuary area? It is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the community by making atonement for them before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:8 - With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:3 - They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD’s assembly?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:14 - The people of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one allotment and one portion for an inheritance? We are a numerous people, and the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28 - “Through the window peered Sisera’s mother; behind the lattice she cried out, ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:28 - Then Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelek, and why should we Shechemites be subject to him? Isn’t he Jerub-Baal’s son, and isn’t Zebul his deputy? Serve the family of Hamor, Shechem’s father! Why should we serve Abimelek?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - Jephthah said to them, “Didn’t you hate me and drive me from my father’s house? Why do you come to me now, when you’re in trouble?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:26 - For three hundred years Israel occupied Heshbon, Aroer, the surrounding settlements and all the towns along the Arnon. Why didn’t you retake them during that time?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We’re going to burn down your house over your head.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:2 - “Never!” Jonathan replied. “You are not going to die! Look, my father doesn’t do anything, great or small, without letting me know. Why would he hide this from me? It isn’t so!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:27 - But the next day, the second day of the month, David’s place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:1 - David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:7 - Now Saul had had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. And Ish-Bosheth said to Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:10 - David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:20 - the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:4 - He asked Amnon, “Why do you, the king’s son, look so haggard morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:10 - But the king said, “What does this have to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why do you do this?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:11 - Joab said to the man who had told him this, “What! You saw him? Why didn’t you strike him to the ground right there? Then I would have had to give you ten shekels[fn] of silver and a warrior’s belt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:41

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:41 - Soon all the men of Israel were coming to the king and saying to him, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, steal the king away and bring him and his household across the Jordan, together with all his men?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - Then the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king; so we have a greater claim on David than you have. Why then do you treat us with contempt? Weren’t we the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the men of Judah pressed their claims even more forcefully than the men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21 - Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” “To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:6 - (His father had never rebuked him by asking, “Why do you behave as you do?” He was also very handsome and was born next after Absalom.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:13 - Go in to King David and say to him, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to me your servant: “Surely Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:41 - Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they were finishing their feast. On hearing the sound of the trumpet, Joab asked, “What’s the meaning of all the noise in the city?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43 - Why then did you not keep your oath to the LORD and obey the command I gave you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:23 - “Why go to him today?” he asked. “It’s not the New Moon or the Sabbath.” “That’s all right,” she said.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the harm you will do to the Israelites,” he answered. “You will set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open their pregnant women.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:11 - When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him, “Is everything all right? Why did this maniac come to you?” “You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7 - Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:6 - Therefore the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why haven’t you required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the tent of the covenant law?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.” I was very much afraid,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - but I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:11 - So I rebuked the officials and asked them, “Why is the house of God neglected?” Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:21 - But I warned them and said, “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will arrest you.” From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:3 - Then the royal officials at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s command?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:12 - Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:3 - Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:4 - “Is my complaint directed to a human being? Why should I not be impatient?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:7 - Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:1 - “Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:13 - Why do you complain to him that he responds to no one’s words[fn]?

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