Genesis 40:7:10Gen.40.7.W10PAT

מַדּ֛וּעַ

maddua

why

Transliteration
mad-DU-a
Extended
mahd-DOO-ah
IPA
/mad.ˈduː.ʕa/

Meaning by language

English
why
French
pourquoi
Spanish
por qué
Portuguese
por que
German
warum
Russian
почему
Arabic-Simplified
لِمَاذَا
Hindi
क्यों
Chinese-Simplified
为何
Korean
Indonesian
mengapa
Bengali
কেন
Tagalog
bakit
Swahili
kwa nini
Amharic
ለምን
Yoruba
èéṣe
Igbo
gịnị mere
Twi
adɛn nti
Ewe
nukatae

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Result
מַד + דּ֛וּ + 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 pe-nei-KHEM ra-IM ha-YOM

  3. sentence

    va-yish-AL et-se-ri-SEI far-O a-SHER it-TO ve-mish-MAR BEIT a-do-NAV le-a-MOR mad-DU-a pe-nei-KHEM ra-IM ha-YOM

In contextGenesis 40:7

he asked the officers of Pharaoh who with him in custody house of his master saying why your faces sad today

About this coordinate

Genesis 40:7:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Genesis 40:7, so the Hebrew word מַדּ֛וּעַ (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 Gen.40.7.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.40.7.W10.S1) and character.