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Lexicon :: Strong's H4069 - madûaʿ

Aa
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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:4 - What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 - When I came, why was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Was my arm too short to deliver you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert; their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:2 - Why are your garments red, like those of one treading the winepress?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 - Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 - “You of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to you no more’?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:5 - Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 - Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they aroused my anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:22 - Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:1 - You are always righteous, LORD, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:22 - And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?”— it is because of your many sins that your skirts have been torn off and your body mistreated.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:19 - Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:28 - Is this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot, an object no one wants? Why will he and his children be hurled out, cast into a land they do not know?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:9 - Why do you prophesy in the LORD’s name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?” And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:6 - Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:3 - Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there, saying, “Why do you prophesy as you do? You say, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29 - Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘This is what the LORD says: You burned that scroll and said, “Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon would certainly come and destroy this land and wipe from it both man and beast?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:5 - What do I see? They are terrified, they are retreating, their warriors are defeated. They flee in haste without looking back, and there is terror on every side,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:15 - Why will your warriors be laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD will push them down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1 - Concerning the Ammonites: This is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Has Israel no heir? Why then has Molek[fn] taken possession of Gad? Why do his people live in its towns?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:19 - “Yet you ask, ‘Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:10 - Do we not all have one Father[fn]? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our ancestors by being unfaithful to one another?

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