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:
Psalms 79:10: " Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight"
Psalms 80:12: " Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck"
Psalms 84:1: "A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!"
Psalms 85:8: "I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace"
Psalms 88:14: "LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from"
Psalms 89:46: " How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself forever? shall thy wrath burn like"
Psalms 89:47: "Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all"
Psalms 89:47: "how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men"
Psalms 92:5: "O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep."
Psalms 104:24: "O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth"
Psalms 114:5: " What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?"
Psalms 115:2: " Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?"
Psalms 116:12: " What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward"
Psalms 118:6: "The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do"
Psalms 119:9: " Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word."
Psalms 119:84: " How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute"
Psalms 119:97: " O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day."
Psalms 119:103: " How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!"
Psalms 120:3: " What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?"
Psalms 120:3: "What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?"
Psalms 133:1: "of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren"
Psalms 133:1: "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"
Psalms 139:17: " How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum"
Psalms 139:17: "precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum"
Psalms 144:3: "LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account"
Proverbs 4:19: "is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble."
Proverbs 5:20: " And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?"
Proverbs 9:13: "is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing."
Proverbs 15:23: "of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good"
Proverbs 16:16: " How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding"
Proverbs 17:16: " Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no"
Proverbs 20:24: "Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?"
Proverbs 22:27: "If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under"
Proverbs 25:8: "Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor"
Proverbs 27:1: "of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."
Proverbs 30:4: "all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name,"
Proverbs 30:4: "of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?"
Proverbs 30:13: "There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up."
Proverbs 31:2: " What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?"
Proverbs 31:2: "What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?"
Proverbs 31:2: "and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?"
Ecclesiastes 1:3: " What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under"
Ecclesiastes 1:9: " The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done"
Ecclesiastes 1:9: "that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done"
Ecclesiastes 2:2: "of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?"
Ecclesiastes 2:12: "and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after"
Ecclesiastes 2:15: "to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise?"
Ecclesiastes 2:22: "For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart,"
Ecclesiastes 3:9: " What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?"
Ecclesiastes 3:15: " That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already"
