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:
Ecclesiastes 3:22: "for who shall bring him to see what shall be after"
Ecclesiastes 5:6: "that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice,"
Ecclesiastes 5:11: "increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving"
Ecclesiastes 5:16: "as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath labored"
Ecclesiastes 6:8: "For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor,"
Ecclesiastes 6:8: "more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before"
Ecclesiastes 6:10: " That which hath been is named already, and it is known that"
Ecclesiastes 6:11: "things that increase vanity, what is man the better?"
Ecclesiastes 6:12: "For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all"
Ecclesiastes 6:12: "who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?"
Ecclesiastes 7:10: "Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were"
Ecclesiastes 7:16: "over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?"
Ecclesiastes 7:17: "neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?"
Ecclesiastes 7:24: " That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?"
Ecclesiastes 8:4: "is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest"
Ecclesiastes 8:7: "For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who"
Ecclesiastes 10:14: "a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be"
Ecclesiastes 11:2: "for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth."
Ecclesiastes 11:5: "As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb"
Song of Solomon 1:7: "thou feedest, where thou makest thyflock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside"
Song of Solomon 4:10: " How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love"
Song of Solomon 4:10: "is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine!"
Song of Solomon 5:8: "ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick"
Song of Solomon 5:9: " What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved"
Song of Solomon 5:9: "more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved,"
Song of Solomon 6:13: "return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies."
Song of Solomon 7:1: " How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs"
Song of Solomon 7:6: " How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!"
Song of Solomon 7:6: "How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!"
Song of Solomon 8:4: "I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake"
Song of Solomon 8:4: "of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until"
Song of Solomon 8:8: "sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?"
Isaiah 1:5: " Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head"
Isaiah 1:11: " To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams,"
Isaiah 2:22: "breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted"
Isaiah 3:15: " What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord"
Isaiah 5:4: " What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked"
Isaiah 10:3: " And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far?"
Isaiah 14:32: " What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion,"
Isaiah 19:12: "men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon"
Isaiah 21:11: "to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman,"
Isaiah 21:11: "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"
Isaiah 22:1: "The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up"
Isaiah 22:16: " What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulcher here,"
Isaiah 36:4: "king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?"
Isaiah 38:15: " What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years"
Isaiah 38:22: "Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"
Isaiah 39:3: "Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence"
Isaiah 39:4: "Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All"
Isaiah 40:6: "said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass,"
