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H4069מַדּוּעַmad.du.a
why?Part of speech: Hebrew Interogative
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The 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?
מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Joab said to the man who told him, Behold, you saw it, and why didn't you strike him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten [supplied: pieces of] silver, and a sash.
וּמַדּ֛וּעַ (מַדּ֛וּעַ) ma.Du.a' “why?”
Behold, 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?
מַדּוּעַ֩ ma.du.a' “why?”
The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [supplied: right] in 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.
וּמַדּ֙וּעַ֙ (מַדּ֙וּעַ֙) ma.Du.a' “why?”
Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
מַדּ֛וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.
מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Go and get you 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?
וּמַדּ֖וּעַ (מַדּ֖וּעַ) ma.Du.a' “why?”
Adonijah 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?
מַדּ֥וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have charged you with?
וּמַדּ֕וּעַ (מַדּ֕וּעַ) ma.Du.a' “why?”
He said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon nor Sabbath. She said, It shall be well.
מַ֠דּוּעַ Ma.du.a' “why?”
Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? He answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their strongholds will you set on fire, and their young men will you kill with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.
מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, Is all well? why came this mad fellow to you? He said to them, You know the man and what his talk was.
מַדּ֛וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [supplied: other] priests, and said to them, Why don't you repair the breaches of the house? now therefore take no [supplied: more] money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
מַדּ֛וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why haven't you required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?
מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ ma.Du.a' “why?”
The king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.
מַדּ֣וּעַ׀ ma.Du.a' “why?”
I said to the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?
מַדּ֜וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
מַדּ֖וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why lodge you about the wall? if you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.
מַדּ֜וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, Why disobey you the king's commandment?
מַדּ֙וּעַ֙ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
מַ֭דּוּעַ Ma.du.a' “why?”
Why are we counted as animals, Which have become unclean in your sight?
מַ֭דּוּעַ Ma.du.a' “why?”
As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
מַ֝דּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
"Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
מַדּ֣וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
"Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?
מַדּ֗וּעַ ma.Du.a' “why?”
Why do you strive against him, Because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
מַ֭דּוּעַ Ma.du.a' “why?”