Hebrew intg · H4069
מַדּוּעַ
madduamad-doo'-ah
why?
72 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maddûwaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4069is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 19 of 39Old Testament books
- 24spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4069
what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?
The King James renders it: how, wherefore, why.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
maddua is rendered "why?". It stands 72 times in the Hebrew text, across nineteen books.
- Sixteen of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 26:27“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
- The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.
The first use
“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
Genesis 26:27מַדּ֖וּעַ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in nineteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- why62
- and why10
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַדּוּחַ | madduach | enticement | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 72, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
24 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מַדּ֖וּעַ10
- מַדּ֗וּעַ8
- מַדּוּעַ֩7
- מַדּ֛וּעַ6
- מַדּ֜וּעַ5
- מַדּ֥וּעַ4
- מַדּ֣וּעַ4
- מַדּ֙וּעַ֙4
- מַ֭דּוּעַ3
- וּמַדּ֙וּעַ֙2
- וּמַדּ֥וּעַ2
- וּמַדּ֖וּעַ2
and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- question particle62HTi
- conjunction (“and”) + question particle10HC/Ti
Genesis
two uses
“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
- מַדּ֖וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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?”
- מַדּ֛וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Exodus
five uses
So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
- מַדּ֥וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
- מַדּ֛וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
- מַדּ֖וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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?”
- מַדּ֡וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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?”
- מַדּ֗וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Leviticus
one use
“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.
- מַדּ֗וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Numbers
two uses
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?”
- וּמַדּ֙וּעַ֙umadua'conjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and why
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?”
- וּמַדּ֥וּעַumadua'conjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and why
Joshua
one use
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.”
- מַדּוּעַ֩madua'question particletagged: why
Judges
six uses
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?’
- מַדּ֗וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
- מַדּ֣וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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?
- וּמַדּ֖וּעַumadua'conjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and why
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?”
- וּמַדּ֜וּעַumadua'conjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and why
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?
- וּמַדּ֥וּעַumadua'conjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and why
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!”
- מַדּ֣וּעַ׀madua'question particletagged: why
Ruth
one use
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?”
- מַדּוּעַ֩madua'question particletagged: why
1 Samuel
three uses
“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!”
- וּמַדּוּעַ֩umadua'conjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and why
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?”
- מַדּ֜וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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?”
- מַדּ֤וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
2 Samuel
ten uses
Meanwhile, Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”
- מַדּ֥וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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?”
- מַדּ֖וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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?
- מַדּ֛וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
- מַדּ֜וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
so 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.”
- מַדּ֣וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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?’”
- מַדּ֖וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
“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!”
- וּמַדּ֛וּעַumadua'conjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and why
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?”
- מַדּוּעַ֩madua'question particletagged: why
“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 pressed even harder than the men of Israel.
- וּמַדּ֙וּעַ֙umadua'conjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and why
“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.”
- מַדּ֛וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
1 Kings
four uses
(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)
- מַדּ֖וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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?’
- וּמַדּ֖וּעַumadua'conjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and why
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.
- מַדּ֥וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
So why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”
- וּמַדּ֕וּעַumadua'conjunction (“and”) + question particletagged: and why
2 Kings
four uses
“Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.
- מַ֠דּוּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
“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.”
- מַדּ֖וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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.
- מַדּ֛וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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.”
- מַדּ֛וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
2 Chronicles
one use
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?”
- מַדּ֙וּעַ֙madua'question particletagged: why
Nehemiah
four uses
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
- מַדּ֣וּעַ׀madua'question particletagged: why
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?”
- מַדּ֜וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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,
- מַדּ֖וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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.
- מַדּ֜וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Esther
one use
Then the royal servants at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”
- מַדּ֙וּעַ֙madua'question particletagged: why
Job
six uses
Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
- מַ֭דּוּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
- מַ֭דּוּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
- מַ֝דּ֗וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
- מַדּ֣וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
- מַדּ֗וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
- מַ֭דּוּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Isaiah
three uses
What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
- מַדּ֧וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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.
- מַדּ֨וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?
- מַדּ֥וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Jeremiah
sixteen uses
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
- מַדּ֖וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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’?
- מַדּ֜וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
- מַדּ֨וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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?”
- מַדּ֗וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
- מַדּ֙וּעַ֙madua'question particletagged: why
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?
- מַדּ֗וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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.
- מַדּ֖וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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.
- מַדּ֙וּעַ֙madua'question particletagged: why
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?
- מַדּ֤וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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.
- מַדּוּעַ֩madua'question particletagged: why
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?
- מַדּוּעַ֩madua'question particletagged: why
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.
- מַדּוּעַ֩madua'question particletagged: why
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?’
- מַדּוּעַ֩madua'question particletagged: why
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.
- מַדּ֣וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.
- מַדּ֖וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
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?
- מַדּ֗וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Ezekiel
one use
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.
- מַדֻּ֛עַmadua'question particletagged: why
Malachi
one use
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?
- מַדּ֗וּעַmadua'question particletagged: why
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.