Exodus 5:14:10Exod.5.14.W10PAT

מַדּ֡וּעַ

maddua

why

Transliteration
mad-DU-a
Extended
mahd-DOO-ah
IPA
/madˈduː.aʕ/

Meaning by language

English
why
French
pourquoi
Spanish
por qué
Portuguese
por que
German
warum
Russian
почему
Arabic-Simplified
لِمَاذَا
Hindi
क्यों
Chinese-Simplified
为什么
Korean
어찌하여
Indonesian
mengapa
Bengali
কেন
Tagalog
bakit
Swahili
kwa nini
Amharic
ለምን
Yoruba
kilode
Igbo
gini mere
Twi
adɛn nti
Ewe
eka ta

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Result
מַד + דּ֡וּ + עַ
mad + du + a
maddua

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Daletd as in door
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Patachshort 'ah' as in father

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Word in context

  1. word

    mad-DU-a

  2. clause

    mad-DU-a LO ki-li-TEM khokh-KHEM lil-BON kit-MOL shil-SHOM gam-te-MOL gam-ha-YOM

  3. sentence

    va-yu-KU sho-TREI be-NEI yis-ra-EL a-sher-sa-MU a-le-HEM nog-SEI par-O le-MOR mad-DU-a LO ki-li-TEM khokh-KHEM lil-BON kit-MOL shil-SHOM gam-te-MOL gam-ha-YOM

In contextExodus 5:14

and were beaten foremen of the sons of Israel whom they had set over them taskmasters of Pharaoh saying why not you finished your quota to make bricks as yesterday day before yesterday also yesterday also today

About this coordinate

Exodus 5:14:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Exodus 5:14, so the Hebrew word מַדּ֡וּעַ (maddua) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Exod.5.14.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.5.14.W10.S1) and character.