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:
Isaiah 40:18: "whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare"
Isaiah 40:27: " Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD,"
Isaiah 41:22: "shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know"
Isaiah 45:9: "Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?"
Isaiah 45:10: "Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?"
Isaiah 45:10: "What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?"
Isaiah 52:5: "Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away"
Isaiah 52:7: " How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace;"
Isaiah 55:2: " Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not?"
Isaiah 58:3: " Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?"
Isaiah 63:17: "O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear?"
Jeremiah 1:11: "unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I"
Jeremiah 1:13: "unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I"
Jeremiah 2:5: "Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that"
Jeremiah 2:18: "And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what"
Jeremiah 2:18: "to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters"
Jeremiah 2:23: "thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing"
Jeremiah 2:29: " Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 2:33: " Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught"
Jeremiah 2:36: " Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed"
Jeremiah 4:30: "And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though"
Jeremiah 5:15: "whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say."
Jeremiah 5:19: "And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God"
Jeremiah 5:31: "and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end"
Jeremiah 6:20: " To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane"
Jeremiah 7:17: "Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets"
Jeremiah 8:6: "him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course,"
Jeremiah 8:9: "they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom"
Jeremiah 8:14: " Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defensed"
Jeremiah 9:12: "hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness,"
Jeremiah 11:15: " What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh"
Jeremiah 13:21: " What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains,"
Jeremiah 14:8: "the savior thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man"
Jeremiah 14:9: " Why shouldest thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save?"
Jeremiah 15:18: " Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed?"
Jeremiah 16:10: "words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced"
Jeremiah 16:10: "this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin"
Jeremiah 16:10: "evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed"
Jeremiah 20:18: " Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days"
Jeremiah 22:8: "every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus"
Jeremiah 22:23: "of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain"
Jeremiah 23:28: "and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to"
Jeremiah 23:33: "thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 23:33: "a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto"
Jeremiah 23:35: "and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD"
Jeremiah 23:35: "What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?"
Jeremiah 23:37: "shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD"
Jeremiah 23:37: "What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?"
Jeremiah 24:3: "Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said,"
Jeremiah 27:13: " Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as"
