# H4069 מַדּוּעַ

מַדּוּעַ (maddûwaʻ), Strong’s H4069: what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why? KJV: how, wherefore, why.. Occurs 72 times.

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*maddûwaʻ* — what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?

KJV: how, wherefore, why.

Built from [מָה mâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H4100) (interrogative what?) + [יָדַע yâdaʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H3045) (to know)

Occurs 72 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַדּוּעַ 61 and מַדֻּעַ adv. wherefore?

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 26:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=27) — Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
- [Genesis 40:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=7) — He 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=18) — The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
- [Exodus 2:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=18) — When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
- [Exodus 3:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=3) — Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”
- [Exodus 5:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=14) — The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why…
- [Exodus 18:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=14) — When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people?…
- [Leviticus 10:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/10?v=17) — “Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to…
- [Numbers 12:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/12?v=8) — With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see the LORD’s form. Why then…
- [Numbers 16:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=3) — They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself…