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H4069 — מַדּוּעַ
mad.du.a · why? · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 26:27 · מַדּ֖וּעַIsaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”Genesis 40:7 · מַדּ֛וּעַHe asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”Exodus 1:18 · מַדּ֥וּעַThe king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?”Exodus 2:18 · מַדּ֛וּעַWhen they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”Exodus 3:3 · מַדּ֖וּעַMoses said, “I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.”Exodus 5:14 · מַדּ֡וּעַThe officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”Exodus 18:14 · מַדּ֗וּעַWhen Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?”Leviticus 10:17 · מַדּ֗וּעַ“Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?Numbers 12:8 · וּמַדּ֙וּעַ֙With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”Numbers 16:3 · וּמַדּ֥וּעַand they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh?”Joshua 17:14 · מַדּוּעַ֩The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since I am a great people, because Yahweh has blessed me so far?”Judges 5:28 · מַדּ֗וּעַ · מַדּ֣וּעַ“Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice. ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’Judges 9:28 · וּמַדּ֖וּעַGaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: but why should we serve him?Judges 11:7 · וּמַדּ֜וּעַJephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”Judges 11:26 · וּמַדּ֥וּעַWhile Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn’t you recover them within that time?Judges 12:1 · מַדּ֣וּעַ׀The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”Ruth 2:10 · מַדּוּעַ֩Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”1 Samuel 20:2 · וּמַדּוּעַ֩He said to him, “Far from it; you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”1 Samuel 20:27 · מַדּ֜וּעַIt happened on the next day after the new moon, the second day, that David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why doesn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, neither yesterday, nor today?”1 Samuel 21:1 · מַדּ֤וּעַThen came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”2 Samuel 3:7 · מַדּ֥וּעַNow Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”2 Samuel 11:10 · מַדּ֖וּעַWhen they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”2 Samuel 11:20 · מַדּ֛וּעַit shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?2 Samuel 12:9 · מַדּ֜וּעַWhy have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.2 Samuel 13:4 · מַדּ֣וּעַHe said to him, “Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”2 Samuel 16:10 · מַדּ֖וּעַThe king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”2 Samuel 18:11 · וּמַדּ֛וּעַJoab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.”2 Samuel 19:41 · מַדּוּעַ֩Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”2 Samuel 19:43 · וּמַדּ֙וּעַ֙The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.2 Samuel 24:21 · מַדּ֛וּעַAraunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”1 Kings 1:6 · מַדּ֖וּעַHis father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.1 Kings 1:13 · וּמַדּ֖וּעַGo in to king David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? Why then does Adonijah reign?’1 Kings 1:41 · מַדּ֥וּעַAdonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?”1 Kings 2:43 · וּמַדּ֕וּעַWhy then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”2 Kings 4:23 · מַ֠דּוּעַHe said, “Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” She said, “It’s alright.”2 Kings 8:12 · מַדּ֖וּעַHazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.”2 Kings 9:11 · מַדּ֛וּעַThen Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and what his talk was.”2 Kings 12:7 · מַדּ֛וּעַThen king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the breaches of the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.”2 Chronicles 24:6 · מַדּ֙וּעַ֙The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the tent of the testimony?”Nehemiah 2:2 · מַדּ֣וּעַ׀The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.Nehemiah 2:3 · מַדּ֜וּעַI said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”Nehemiah 13:11 · מַדּ֖וּעַThen I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” I gathered them together, and set them in their place.Nehemiah 13:21 · מַדּ֜וּעַThen I testified against them, and said to them, “Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath.Esther 3:3 · מַדּ֙וּעַ֙Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”Job 3:12 · מַ֭דּוּעַWhy did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?Job 18:3 · מַ֭דּוּעַWhy are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?Job 21:4 · מַ֝דּ֗וּעַAs for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?Job 21:7 · מַדּ֣וּעַ“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?Job 24:1 · מַדּ֗וּעַ“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?Job 33:13 · מַ֭דּוּעַWhy do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?Isaiah 5:4 · מַדּ֧וּעַWhat could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?Isaiah 50:2 · מַדּ֨וּעַWhy, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.Isaiah 63:2 · מַדּ֥וּעַWhy are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?Jeremiah 2:14 · מַדּ֖וּעַIs Israel a servant? Is he a native-born slave? Why has he become a prey?Jeremiah 2:31 · מַדּ֜וּעַGeneration, consider the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’Jeremiah 8:5 · מַדּ֨וּעַWhy then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.Jeremiah 8:19 · מַדּ֗וּעַBehold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?Jeremiah 8:22 · מַדּ֙וּעַ֙Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?Jeremiah 12:1 · מַדּ֗וּעַYou are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?Jeremiah 13:22 · מַדּ֖וּעַIf you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.Jeremiah 14:19 · מַדּ֙וּעַ֙Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!Jeremiah 22:28 · מַדּ֤וּעַIs this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don’t know?Jeremiah 26:9 · מַדּוּעַ֩Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.Jeremiah 30:6 · מַדּוּעַ֩Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?Jeremiah 32:3 · מַדּוּעַ֩For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;Jeremiah 36:29 · מַדּוּעַ֩Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal?Jeremiah 46:5 · מַדּ֣וּעַWhy have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don’t look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 46:15 · מַדּ֖וּעַWhy are your strong ones swept away? they didn’t stand, because Yahweh pushed them.Jeremiah 49:1 · מַדּ֗וּעַOf the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in its cities?Malachi 2:10 · מַדּ֗וּעַDon’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?