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H4100 מָה (mâh) maw
Hebrew
Intg (Hebrew)
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Quick Definition

what?

Strong's Definition

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

Derivation: or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle;

KJV Usage: how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.

TWOT Reference: 1149

Outline of Biblical Usage

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

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G155 G2425 G2425 G3029 G4169 G5101 G5101 G5101 G5101 G2982

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

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 Hebrew Lexicon

מֶה / מַ־ / מָ־ / מַה / מָה mâh / mah / mâ / ma / meh BDB Definition: 1) what, how, of what kind (interrogative pronoun) 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 preposition) 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? 2) anything, aught, what may (indefinite pronoun) Part of Speech: see above in Definition A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: a primitive particle Same Word by TWOT Number: 1149 Total KJV Occurrences: 729

Bible Occurrences (648)

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2:4 2:13 2:20 3:13 4:2 5:4 5:15 5:22 10:26 12:26 13:14 14:5 14:11 14:15 15:24 16:7 16:8 16:15 17:2 17:3 17:4 18:14 22:27 32:1 32:11 32:12 32:21 32:23 33:5 33:16
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5:25 6:20 10:12 29:24 32:20
4:6 4:21 5:14 7:7 7:8 7:9 7:10 7:19 7:25 9:22 15:18 22:16 22:24
1:14 2:2 5:16 5:17 6:13 6:15 7:11 8:1 8:2 8:3 9:2 9:48 11:12 12:3 13:8 13:12 13:18 14:18 15:10 15:11 16:5 16:6 16:10 16:13 16:15 18:3 18:8 18:14 18:18 18:23 18:24 20:12 21:3 21:7 21:16
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1:16 2:22 3:5 9:8 9:13 11:22 12:9 12:16 14:3 14:6 14:14 17:18 18:9 19:9 19:13 19:20 21:5 22:16 22:21
1:5 1:7 2:9 3:13 4:2 4:13 4:14 4:43 5:8 6:28 6:33 7:3 8:13 8:14 9:18 9:19 9:22 14:10 18:19 20:8 20:14 20:15 23:17
12:32 15:13 17:6 17:18 21:3 21:12 21:17
1:7 7:21 10:9 10:16 18:15 18:20 19:6 20:12 24:20 25:9 25:15 25:16 25:19 30:3 32:4 32:10 32:13 35:21
9:10
2:4 2:12 2:16 2:19 4:2 6:3 13:17
1:15 2:11 4:5 5:3 5:6 6:3 6:6 7:2 8:1 9:12 9:26
3:11 3:12 3:20 6:11 6:24 6:25 7:17 7:19 7:20 7:21 9:2 9:12 9:29 10:2 10:18 11:8 13:13 13:14 13:23 13:24 15:9 15:12 15:14 16:3 16:6 19:22 19:28 21:15 21:17 21:21 22:13 22:17 23:5 25:4 26:2 26:3 26:7 26:14 27:8 27:12 30:2 31:1 31:2 31:14 34:4 34:33 35:3 35:6 35:7 37:19 38:6 40:4
2:1 3:1 4:2 8:1 8:4 8:9 10:1 10:13 11:3 21:1 22:1 30:9 31:19 35:17 36:7 39:4 39:7 42:5 42:9 42:11 43:2 43:5 44:23 44:24 49:5 50:16 52:1 56:4 56:11 66:3 68:16 74:1 74:9 74:11 78:40 79:5 79:10 80:12 84:1 85:8 88:14 89:46 89:47 92:5 104:24 114:5 115:2 116:12 118:6 119:9 119:84 119:97 119:103 120:3 133:1 139:17 144:3
4:19 5:20 9:13 15:23 16:16 17:16 20:24 22:27 25:8 27:1 30:4 30:13 31:2
1:3 1:9 2:2 2:12 2:15 2:22 3:9 3:15 3:22 5:6 5:11 5:16 6:8 6:10 6:11 6:12 7:10 7:16 7:17 7:24 8:4 8:7 10:14 11:2 11:5
1:5 1:11 2:22 3:15 5:4 10:3 14:32 19:12 21:11 22:1 22:16 36:4 38:15 38:22 39:3 39:4 40:6 40:18 40:27 41:22 45:9 45:10 52:7 55:2 58:3 63:17
1:11 1:13 2:5 2:18 2:23 2:29 2:33 2:36 4:30 5:15 5:19 5:31 6:20 7:17 8:6 8:9 8:14 9:12 11:15 13:21 14:8 14:9 15:18 16:10 20:18 22:8 22:23 23:28 23:33 23:35 23:37 24:3 27:13 27:17 29:27 30:15 33:24 37:18 38:25 40:15 44:7 48:19 49:4
2:13 3:39 5:1 5:20
8:6 12:9 12:22 15:2 16:30 17:12 18:2 18:31 19:2 20:29 21:7 21:13 24:19 33:11 33:30 37:18
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4:9 6:3 6:5 6:6 6:8
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1:9 1:19 1:21 2:2 4:2 4:4 4:5 4:11 4:12 4:13 5:2 5:5 5:6 6:4 7:3 9:17 13:6
1:2 1:6 1:7 1:13 2:14 2:15 2:17 3:7 3:8 3:13 3:14

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