Strong's #4069: madduwa` (pronounced mad-doo'-ah)
or madduaa {mad-doo'-ah}; from 4100 and the passive participle of 3045; what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?:--how, wherefore, why.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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maddûa‛ / maddûa‛
1) why?, on what account?, wherefore?
Part of Speech: adverb
Relation: from H4100 and the passive participle of H3045
Usage:
This word is used 72 times:
Genesis 26:27: "And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate"
Genesis 40:7: "of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly today?"
Exodus 1:18: "called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved"
Exodus 2:18: "Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon today?"
Exodus 3:3: "great sight, why the bush is not burnt."
Exodus 5:14: "over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick"
Exodus 18:14: "thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all"
Leviticus 10:17: " Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing"
Numbers 12:8: "and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant"
Numbers 16:3: "every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?"
Joshua 17:14: "Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one"
Judges 5:28: "and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming?"
Judges 5:28: "his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?"
Judges 9:28: "of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve"
Judges 11:7: "me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now"
Judges 11:26: "three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?"
Judges 12:1: "northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon,"
Ruth 2:10: "to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge"
1 Samuel 20:2: "small, but that he will show it me: and why should my father hide"
1 Samuel 20:27: "said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son"
1 Samuel 21:1: "at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man"
2 Samuel 3:7: "and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?"
2 Samuel 11:10: "Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down"
2 Samuel 11:20: "wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight?"
2 Samuel 12:9: " Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight?"
2 Samuel 13:4: "And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day"
2 Samuel 16:10: "David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?"
2 Samuel 18:11: "that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground?"
2 Samuel 19:41: "and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away,"
2 Samuel 19:43: "have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be"
2 Samuel 24:21: "And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?"
1 Kings 1:6: "displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he"
1 Kings 1:13: "shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?"
1 Kings 1:41: "the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?"
1 Kings 2:43: " Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that"
2 Kings 4:23: "And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? it is neither new moon,"
2 Kings 8:12: "And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know"
2 Kings 9:11: "of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to"
2 Kings 12:7: "and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches"
2 Chronicles 24:6: "for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites"
Nehemiah 2:2: "Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick?"
Nehemiah 2:3: "Let the king live forever: why should not my countenance be sad, when"
Nehemiah 13:11: "I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together,"
Nehemiah 13:21: "Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall?"
Esther 3:3: "gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's"
Job 3:12: " Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?"
Job 18:3: " Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?"
Job 21:4: "is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?"
Job 21:7: " Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?"
Job 24:1: " Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not"
