מַדּוּעַmaddûwaʻ/mad-doo'-ah/
HebrewH40696 occurrences (KJV)
what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?
KJV renders it: how, wherefore, why.
Where it appears
- Gen 26:27Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
- Exod 1:18The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?”
- Exod 2:18When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
- Exod 3:3Moses said, “I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”
- Isa 5:4What 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?
- Jer 2:14Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.