H4069 - מַדּוּעַ (maddûwaʻ)

H4069 מַדּוּעַ (maddûwaʻ) mad-doo'-ah

Hebrew

Intg (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

why?

Strong's Definition

what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?

Derivation: or מַדֻּעַ; from H4100 (מָה) and the passive participle of H3045 (יָדַע);

KJV Usage: how, wherefore, why.

TWOT Reference: 848h

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) why?, on what account?, wherefore?

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G5101

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

why?, on what account?, wherefore?

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מַדֻּעַ / מַדּוּעַ maddûa‛ / maddûa‛ BDB Definition: 1) why?, on what account?, wherefore? Part of Speech: adverb A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H4100 and the passive participle of H3045 Same Word by TWOT Number: 848h Total KJV Occurrences: 71

Bible Occurrences (71)

26:27 40:7

1:18 2:18 3:3 5:14 18:14

10:17

12:8 16:3

17:14

5:28 9:28 11:7 11:26 12:1

2:10

20:2 20:27 21:1

3:7 11:10 11:20 12:9 13:4 16:10 18:11 19:41 19:43 24:21

1:6 1:13 1:41 2:43

4:23 8:12 9:11 12:7

24:6

2:2 2:3 13:11 13:21

3:3

3:12 18:3 21:4 21:7 24:1 33:13

5:4 50:2 63:2

2:14 2:31 8:5 8:19 8:22 12:1 13:22 14:19 22:28 26:9 30:6 32:3 36:29 46:5 46:15 49:1

18:19

2:10

Genesis 26:27

Why have you come to me? Isaac asked them. You hated me and sent me away....

Genesis 40:7

So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s... house, Why are your faces so downcast today?

Exodus 1:18

So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, Why have you done... this? Why have you let the boys live?

Exodus 2:18

When [the daughters] returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, Why have you returned so early today?

Exodus 3:3

So Moses thought, I must go over... and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?

Exodus 5:14

Then the Israelite... foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today..., as you did before......?

Exodus 18:14

When [his] father-in-law saw all that [Moses] was doing for the people, he asked, What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone [as judge], with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?

Leviticus 10:17

Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement for them before the LORD.