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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 - And Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and saved the male children alive?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:18 - When they came to Reuel their father, he said, “How is it that you have come so soon today?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:3 - Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:14 - Also the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as before?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:14 - So when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit, and all the people stand before you from morning until evening?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:17 - “Why have you not eaten the sin offering in a holy place, since it is most holy, and God has given it to you to bear the guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:8 - I speak with him face to face,
Even plainly, and not in dark sayings;
And 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 gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much upon yourselves, for all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:14 - Then the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given us only one lot and one share to inherit, since we are a great people, inasmuch as the LORD has blessed us until now?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28 - “The mother of Sisera looked through the window,
And cried out through the lattice,
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why tarries the clatter of his chariots?’

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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 not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me, and expel me from my father’s house? Why 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 dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities along the banks of the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - Then the men of Ephraim gathered together, crossed over toward Zaphon, and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the people of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you with fire!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - So she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:2 - So Jonathan said to him, “By no means! You shall not die! Indeed, my father will do nothing either great or small without first telling me. And why 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 - And it happened the next day, the second day of the month, that David’s place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to eat, either yesterday or today?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:1 - Now David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech was afraid when he met David, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one is with you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:7 - And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:10 - So when they told David, saying, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Did you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:20 - “if it happens that the king’s wrath rises, and he says to you: ‘Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought? 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 have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:4 - And he said to him, “Why are you, the king’s son, becoming thinner day after day? Will you not tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love 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 have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David.’ Who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:11 - So Joab said to the man who told him, “You just saw him! And why did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a belt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:41

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:41 - Just then all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brethren, the men of Judah, stolen you away and brought the king, his household, and all David’s men with him across the Jordan?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten shares in the king; therefore we also have more right to David than you. Why then do you despise us—were we not the first to advise bringing back our king?” Yet the words of the men of Judah were fiercer 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 has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:6 - (And his father had not rebuked him at any time by saying, “Why have you done so?” He was also very good-looking. His mother had borne him after Absalom.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:13 - “Go immediately to King David and say to him, ‘Did you not, my lord, O king, swear to your maidservant, saying, “Assuredly your son Solomon shall reign after me, and he shall 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 - Now Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the horn, he said, “Why is the city in such a noisy uproar?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43 - “Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the commandment that I gave you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:23 - So he said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath.” And she said, “It is well.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - And Hazael said, “Why is my lord weeping?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword; and you will dash their children, and rip open their women with child.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:11 - Then Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the man and his babble.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7 - So King Jehoash called Jehoiada the priest and the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damages of the temple? Now therefore, do not take more money from your constituency, but deliver it for repairing the damages of the temple.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:6 - So the king called Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD and of the assembly of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - Therefore the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but sorrow of heart.” So I became dreadfully afraid,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - and said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:11 - So I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” And I gathered them together and set them in their place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:21 - Then I warned them, and said to them, “Why do you spend the night around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you!” From that time on they came no more on the Sabbath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:3 - Then the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:12 - Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:3 - Why are we counted as beasts,
And regarded as stupid in your sight?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:4 - “As for me, is my complaint against man?
And if it were, 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 and become old,
Yes, become mighty in power?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:1 - “Since times are not hidden from the Almighty,
Why do those who know Him see not His days?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:13 - Why do you contend with Him?
For He does not give an accounting of any of His words.

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