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 2 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.
- Isaiah 5:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
What more could have been done for My vineyard than I have done for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
Read word by word - Isaiah 50:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
Read word by word - Isaiah 63:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 2:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 2:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 8:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 8:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 8:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 12:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 13:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 14:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 22:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 26:9
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How dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD that this house will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!” And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 30:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 32:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 36:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 46:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 46:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 49:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?
Read word by word - Ezekiel 18:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
Read word by word - Malachi 2:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
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