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HebrewH4069Intg

מַדּוּעַ

mad.du.a

67Occurrences
H4069Strong's #
IntgPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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

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

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
why?, on what account?, wherefore?

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Intg

Morphology Code

H:Intg

Full Description

H:Intg

Occurrences

מַדּוּעַ appears 67 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
16
2 Samuel
8
Job
6
Exodus
5
Judges
5
1 Kings
4
Nehemiah
4
2 Kings
3

Key Passages

1 Kings 1:6BSB

(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)

2 Samuel 13:4BSB

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.”

Genesis 40:7BSB

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?”

Jeremiah 2:31BSB

You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD:“Have I been a wilderness to Israelor a land of dense darkness?Why do My people say,‘We are free to roam;we will come to You no more’?

Job 21:4BSB

Is my complaint against a man?Then why should I not be impatient?

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.