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mad.du.a · why? · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 26:27 · מַדּ֖וּעַ“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”Genesis 40:7 · מַדּ֛וּעַSo he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”Exodus 1:18 · מַדּ֥וּעַSo the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”Exodus 2:18 · מַדּ֛וּעַWhen the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”Exodus 3:3 · מַדּ֖וּעַSo Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”Exodus 5:14 · מַדּ֡וּעַThen 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?”Exodus 18:14 · מַדּ֗וּעַWhen 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?”Leviticus 10:17 · מַדּ֗וּעַ“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.Numbers 12:8 · וּמַדּ֙וּעַ֙I 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?”Numbers 16:3 · וּמַדּ֥וּעַThey 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?”Joshua 17:14 · מַדּוּעַ֩Then 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.”Judges 5:28 · מַדּ֗וּעַ · מַדּ֣וּעַSisera’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?’Judges 9:28 · וּמַדּ֖וּעַThen 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?Judges 11:7 · וּמַדּ֜וּעַJephthah 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?”Judges 11:26 · וּמַדּ֥וּעַFor 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?Judges 12:1 · מַדּ֣וּעַ׀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!”Ruth 2:10 · מַדּוּעַ֩At 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?”1 Samuel 20:2 · וּמַדּוּעַ֩“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!”1 Samuel 20:27 · מַדּ֜וּעַBut 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?”1 Samuel 21:1 · מַדּ֤וּעַThen 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?”2 Samuel 3:7 · מַדּ֥וּעַNow Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”2 Samuel 11:10 · מַדּ֖וּעַAnd 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?”2 Samuel 11:20 · מַדּ֛וּעַif 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?2 Samuel 12:9 · מַדּ֜וּעַWhy 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.2 Samuel 13:4 · מַדּ֣וּעַand 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.”2 Samuel 16:10 · מַדּ֖וּעַBut 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?’”2 Samuel 18:11 · וּמַדּ֛וּעַ“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!”2 Samuel 19:41 · מַדּוּעַ֩Soon 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?”2 Samuel 19:43 · וּמַדּ֙וּעַ֙“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.2 Samuel 24:21 · מַדּ֛וּעַ“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.”1 Kings 1:6 · מַדּ֖וּעַ(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)1 Kings 1:13 · וּמַדּ֖וּעַGo 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?’1 Kings 1:41 · מַדּ֥וּעַNow 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.1 Kings 2:43 · וּמַדּ֕וּעַSo why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”2 Kings 4:23 · מַ֠דּוּעַ“Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.2 Kings 8:12 · מַדּ֖וּעַ“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.”2 Kings 9:11 · מַדּ֛וּעַWhen 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.2 Kings 12:7 · מַדּ֛וּעַSo 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.”2 Chronicles 24:6 · מַדּ֙וּעַ֙So 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?”Nehemiah 2:2 · מַדּ֣וּעַ׀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 fearNehemiah 2:3 · מַדּ֜וּעַand 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?”Nehemiah 13:11 · מַדּ֖וּעַSo 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,Nehemiah 13:21 · מַדּ֜וּעַbut 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.Esther 3:3 · מַדּ֙וּעַ֙Then the royal servants at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”Job 3:12 · מַ֭דּוּעַWhy were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?Job 18:3 · מַ֭דּוּעַWhy are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?Job 21:4 · מַ֝דּ֗וּעַIs my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?Job 21:7 · מַדּ֣וּעַWhy do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?Job 24:1 · מַדּ֗וּעַ“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?Job 33:13 · מַ֭דּוּעַWhy do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?Isaiah 5:4 · מַדּ֧וּעַWhat 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?Isaiah 50:2 · מַדּ֨וּעַWhy 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.Isaiah 63:2 · מַדּ֥וּעַWhy are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?Jeremiah 2:14 · מַדּ֖וּעַIs Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?Jeremiah 2:31 · מַדּ֜וּעַYou 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’?Jeremiah 8:5 · מַדּ֨וּעַWhy then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.Jeremiah 8:19 · מַדּ֗וּעַListen 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?”Jeremiah 8:22 · מַדּ֙וּעַ֙Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?Jeremiah 12:1 · מַדּ֗וּעַRighteous 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?Jeremiah 13:22 · מַדּ֖וּעַAnd 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.Jeremiah 14:19 · מַדּ֙וּעַ֙Have 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.Jeremiah 22:28 · מַדּ֤וּעַIs 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?Jeremiah 26:9 · מַדּוּעַ֩How 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.Jeremiah 30:6 · מַדּוּעַ֩Ask 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?Jeremiah 32:3 · מַדּוּעַ֩For 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.Jeremiah 36:29 · מַדּוּעַ֩You 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?’Jeremiah 46:5 · מַדּ֣וּעַWhy 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.Jeremiah 46:15 · מַדּ֖וּעַWhy have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.Jeremiah 49:1 · מַדּ֗וּעַConcerning 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?Malachi 2:10 · מַדּ֗וּעַDo 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?