Strong's Definition
or madduaa {mad-doo'-ah}; from 4100 and the passive participle of 3045; what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?
KJV Usage: how, wherefore, why
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מַדּוּעַ (mad.du.a) — why?. why?, on what account?, wherefore?
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
inter · ידע
Perceptive Referents
why?, for what purpose? = a reference to the cause, reason or purpose of an event; normally used in questions with the purpose of identifying that cause, reason, or purpose; sometimes used in rhetorical questions expressing one's conviction that these things cannot be identified
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
מַדּוּעַ 61 and מַדֻּעַ adv. wherefore? base