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:
Jeremiah 27:17: "the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?"
Jeremiah 29:27: "Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet"
Jeremiah 30:15: " Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude"
Jeremiah 33:24: "Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two"
Jeremiah 37:18: "unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people,"
Jeremiah 38:25: "unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide"
Jeremiah 38:25: "from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto"
Jeremiah 40:15: "and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews"
Jeremiah 44:7: "of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil"
Jeremiah 48:19: "him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is"
Jeremiah 49:4: " Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted"
Lamentations 2:13: " What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal"
Lamentations 2:13: "What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal"
Lamentations 2:13: "shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter"
Lamentations 3:39: " Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?"
Lamentations 5:1: "Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."
Lamentations 5:20: " Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time?"
Ezekiel 8:6: "of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations"
Ezekiel 12:9: "house, said unto thee, What doest thou?"
Ezekiel 12:22: "Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel,"
Ezekiel 15:2: "Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any"
Ezekiel 16:30: " How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest"
Ezekiel 17:12: "house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king"
Ezekiel 18:2: " What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land"
Ezekiel 18:31: "you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?"
Ezekiel 19:2: "And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished"
Ezekiel 20:29: "Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go?"
Ezekiel 21:7: "when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer,"
Ezekiel 21:13: "Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be"
Ezekiel 24:19: "unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest"
Ezekiel 33:11: "from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why"
Ezekiel 33:30: "Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from"
Ezekiel 37:18: "thee, saying, Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these?"
Daniel 1:10: "your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking"
Daniel 10:20: "Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight"
Daniel 12:8: "not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these"
Hosea 6:4: "O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning"
Hosea 6:4: "what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud,"
Hosea 9:5: " What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?"
Hosea 9:14: "Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry"
Hosea 10:3: "not the LORD; what then should a king do"
Hosea 14:8: "Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I"
Joel 1:18: " How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no"
Joel 2:17: "thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where"
Joel 3:4: "Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Philistia?"
Amos 4:13: "the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness,"
Amos 5:18: "the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness,"
Amos 7:8: "said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line."
Amos 8:2: "And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit."
Jonah 1:6: "So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call"
