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#4100 מָּה mah {maw}
or מַּה mah {mah}
or מָּ ma {maw}
or מַּ ma {mah} also מֶּה meh {meh}
a primitive particle; TWOT - 1149
—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)
interr pron
1) what, how, of what kind
1a) (interrogative)
1a1) what?
1a2) of what kind
1a3) what? (rhetorical)
1a4) whatsoever, whatever, what
1b) (adverb)
1b1) how, how now
1b2) why
1b3) how! (exclamation)
1c) (with prep)
1c1) wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means?
1c2) because of what?
1c3) the like of what?
1c3a) how much?, how many?, how often?
1c3b) for how long?
1c4) for what reason?, why?, to what purpose?
1c5) until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore?
indef pron
2) anything, aught, what may
—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)
A primitive particle; properly interrogitive what? (including how?, why? and when?); but also exclamations like what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational senses:—how (long, oft, [-soever]), [no-] thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby (-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)
- #4100.
- מָה
- mah or
- [or] מָ־
- ma- or
- [or] מֶה
- meh (552b); a prim. interrogative and indefinite particle; what? how? anything:—
- NASB - anything(2), how(93), how long(2), how many(3), how many*(2), how often(2), how*(1), if*(1), many(1), nothing*(1), reason*(2), what(405), whatever(5), whatever*(2), where(3), where*(1), which(1), which*(3), who(2), why(196), why*(14).
—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries
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AV - what, how, why, whereby, wherein, how long, how oft,
to what end; 27
- end
- Amos 5:18.
- for
- Song of Songs 1:7.
- good
- Genesis 27:46.
- how
- Genesis 47:8. Numbers 23:8. 2 Samuel 1:4. Psalms 78:40.
- howsoever
- 2 Samuel 18:22.
- long
- Job 7:19.
- nothing
- Proverbs 9:13.
- thing
- Lamentations 2:13.
- thou
- Judges 8:1.
- what
- Genesis 4:10; 20:10; 33:15. 1 Samuel 19:3. Isaiah 1:11. Zechariah 2:2.
- whereby
- Genesis 15:8.
- wherefore
- Genesis 18:13. Malachi 2:14.
- wherein
- 1 Samuel 14:38.
- whereto
- Job 30:2.
- wherewith
- Judges 6:15.
- why
- Genesis 27:45. Joshua 7:25.
The following translates multiple Hebrew or Aramaic words:
- wherefore
- Jeremiah 5:19.
—Exhaustive Concordance (KJV Translation Frequency & Location)
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