TBESH · H4069
מַדּוּעַ · mad.du.a · why?
why?, on what account?, wherefore?
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mad.du.a H4069
מַדּוּעַ (mad.du.a) means “why?” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
מַדּוּעַ Hebrew · H4069 72 tagged occurrences in 71 verses
Pronunciation guide: mad-doo'-ah Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or מַדֻּעַ; from H4100 (מָה) and the passive participle of H3045 (יָדַע); what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?
KJV glosses: how, wherefore, why.
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How translators render H4069
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| why | 56 |
| why then | 7 |
| why is | 3 |
| so why | 2 |
| how | 1 |
| then why | 1 |
| what | 1 |
| why are | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| why | 2 |
| how | 1 |
| in it wherefore | 1 |
| unto them wherefore | 1 |
| unto them why | 1 |
Verses containing H4069
Page 1 of 2. 71 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 26:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
Read word by word - Genesis 40:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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?”
Read word by word - Exodus 1:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
Read word by word - Exodus 2:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
Read word by word - Exodus 3:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
Read word by word - Exodus 5:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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?”
Read word by word - Exodus 18:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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?”
Read word by word - Leviticus 10:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.
Read word by word - Numbers 12:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”
Read word by word - Numbers 16:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”
Read word by word - Joshua 17:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the sons of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one portion as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”
Read word by word - Judges 5:28
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
Read word by word - Judges 9:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Gaal 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? You are to serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem. Why should we serve Abimelech?
Read word by word - Judges 11:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
Read word by word - Judges 11:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?
Read word by word - Judges 12:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”
Read word by word - Ruth 2:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 20:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 20:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 21:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.2
- 2 Samuel 3:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 11:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 11:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
if the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 12:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 16:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 18:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“You just saw him!” Joab exclaimed. “Why did you not strike him to the ground right there? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a warrior’s belt!”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 19:41
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.42
- 2 Samuel 19:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah spoke more fiercely than the men of Israel.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.44
- 2 Samuel 24:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 1:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)
Read word by word - 1 Kings 1:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’
Read word by word - 1 Kings 1:41
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Adonijah and all his guests were finishing their feast when they heard the sound of the ram’s horn. “Why is the city in such a loud uproar?” asked Joab.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 2:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 4:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 8:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 9:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 12:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.8
- 2 Chronicles 24:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring 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 Testimony?”
Read word by word - Nehemiah 2:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
so the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, though you are not ill? This could only be sadness of the heart.” I was overwhelmed with fear
Read word by word - Nehemiah 2:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
Read word by word - Nehemiah 13:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So I rebuked the officials and asked, “Why has the house of God been neglected?” Then I gathered the Levites and singers together and stationed them at their posts,
Read word by word - Nehemiah 13:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but I warned them, “Why are you camping in front of the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they did not return on the Sabbath.
Read word by word - Esther 3:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the royal servants at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”
Read word by word - Job 3:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
Read word by word - Job 18:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
Read word by word - Job 21:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
Read word by word - Job 21:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
Read word by word - Job 24:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
Read word by word - Job 33:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
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