Genesis 4:6
And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
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Colossians 2:20
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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τίς
tís · tis
88 times translated as this KJV form556 total Strong's occurrences
an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)
Strong's KJV usage: :--every man, how (much), + no(-ne, thing), what (manner, thing), where (-by, -fore, -of, -unto, - with, -withal), whether, which, who(-m, -se), why.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:28Strong's last: Colossians 2:20
Open full G5101 profile →ἱνατί
hinatí · hin-at-ee'
5 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
for what reason ?, i.e. why?
Strong's KJV usage: :--wherefore, why.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 27:46Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 10:29
Open full G2444 profile →διά
diá · dee-ah'
3 times translated as this KJV form645 total Strong's occurrences
through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional)
Strong's KJV usage: :--after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause) … fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, for sake, that, thereby, therefore, X though, through(-out), to, wherefore, with (-in).
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Strong's first: John 7:45Strong's last: John 8:46
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maddûwaʻ · mad-doo'-ah
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
what (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?
Strong's KJV usage: how, wherefore, why.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 1:18Strong's last: Jeremiah 2:14
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mâh · maw
3 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: how great (mighty), that which, what(-soever), why.
Strong's first: Ezra 4:22Strong's last: Daniel 2:15
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hóti · hot'-ee
2 times translated as this KJV form1,112 total Strong's occurrences
demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant); causative, because
Strong's KJV usage: :--as concerning that, as though, because (that), for (that), how (that), (in) that, though, why.
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Strong's first: Mark 9:11Strong's last: Mark 9:28
Open full G3754 profile →מָה
mâh · maw
2 times translated as this KJV form26 total Strong's occurrences
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
Strong's KJV usage: how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 27:45Strong's last: Joshua 7:25
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gár · gar
1 times translated as this KJV form1,056 total Strong's occurrences
properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
Strong's KJV usage: :--and, as, because (that), but, even, for, indeed, no doubt, seeing, then, therefore, verily, what, why, yet.
Strong's first: John 9:30Strong's last: John 9:30
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And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
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And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
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And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
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Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
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And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.
H4100
Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
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Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
no direct Strong's tag
And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
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why
WHY, adverb [Latin , for what. The original phrase is for what, for why ]
1. For what cause or reason, interrogatively.
Turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die? Jeremiah 27:13.
2. For which reason or cause, relatively.
No ground of enmity, why he should mean me ill.
3. For what reason or cause; for which; relatively.
Turn the discourse; I have a reason why I would not have you speak so tenderly.
4. It is used sometimes emphatically, or rather as a expletive.
If her chill heart I cannot move, why Ill enjoy the very love.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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