Strong's #4100: mah (pronounced maw)
or mah {mah}; or ma {maw}; or ma {mah}; also meh {meh}; a primitive particle; 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:--how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
/ ־ / ־ / /
mâh / mah / mâ / ma / meh
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
Relation: a primitive particle
Usage:
This word is used 751 times:
Job 35:3: "For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?"
Job 35:3: "thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?"
Job 35:6: "If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest"
Job 35:6: "doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest"
Job 35:7: "If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?"
Job 35:7: "what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?"
Job 37:19: "Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness."
Job 38:6: " Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner"
Job 40:4: "Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth."
Psalms 2:1: " Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?"
Psalms 3:1: "from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many"
Psalms 4:2: "O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity,"
Psalms 8:1: "of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!"
Psalms 8:4: " What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest"
Psalms 8:9: "O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!"
Psalms 10:1: " Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?"
Psalms 10:13: " Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not"
Psalms 11:3: "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
Psalms 21:1: "in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!"
Psalms 22:1: "of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping"
Psalms 30:9: " What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise"
Psalms 31:19: " Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust"
Psalms 35:17: "Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling"
Psalms 36:7: " How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow"
Psalms 39:4: "mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail"
Psalms 39:4: "what it is; that I may know how frail I"
Psalms 39:7: "And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope"
Psalms 42:5: " Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for"
Psalms 42:9: "I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning"
Psalms 42:9: "my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
Psalms 42:11: " Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God:"
Psalms 42:11: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God:"
Psalms 43:2: "thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning"
Psalms 43:2: "of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
Psalms 43:5: " Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God:"
Psalms 43:5: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God:"
Psalms 44:23: "Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off forever."
Psalms 44:24: " Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?"
Psalms 49:5: " Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?"
Psalms 50:16: "But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant"
Psalms 52:1: "to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness"
Psalms 56:4: "I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do"
Psalms 56:11: "have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do"
Psalms 66:3: "Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies"
Psalms 68:16: " Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell"
Psalms 74:1: "Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off forever? why doth thine anger smoke"
Psalms 74:9: "neither is there among us any that knoweth how long."
Psalms 74:11: " Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom."
Psalms 78:40: " How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!"
Psalms 79:5: " How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry forever? shall thy jealousy burn like"
