Strong's #4101: mah (pronounced maw)

(Aramaic) corresponding to 4100:--how great (mighty), that which, what(-soever), why.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

(Aramaic)

mâh

1) what, whatever

1a) what?

1b) whatever, what, whatsoever

1c) how?, why?, wherefore? (with prefixes)

Part of Speech: pronoun interrogative or indefinite

Relation: corresponding to H4100

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Ezra 4:22: "Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow"
Ezra 7:18: " And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest"
Ezra 7:23: "for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against"
Daniel 2:15: "to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty"
Daniel 2:22: "the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with"
Daniel 2:28: "and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days."
Daniel 2:29: "came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter:"
Daniel 2:29: "hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass."
Daniel 2:45: "the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what"
Daniel 4:3: " How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting"
Daniel 4:3: "How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting"
Daniel 4:35: "stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest"