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:
Jonah 1:8: "for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence"
Jonah 1:8: "is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what"
Jonah 1:10: "afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For"
Jonah 1:11: "Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto"
Jonah 4:5: "under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city."
Micah 4:9: "Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counselor perished?"
Micah 6:3: "O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify"
Micah 6:3: "O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify"
Micah 6:5: "O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted,"
Micah 6:5: "king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered"
Micah 6:6: " Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings,"
Micah 6:8: "He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of"
Micah 6:8: "thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but"
Nahum 1:9: " What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction"
Habakkuk 1:3: " Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before"
Habakkuk 1:13: "not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue"
Habakkuk 2:1: "the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when"
Habakkuk 2:1: "to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved."
Habakkuk 2:18: " What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher"
Haggai 1:9: "and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts."
Haggai 2:3: "house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not"
Zechariah 1:9: "Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto"
Zechariah 1:9: "unto me, I will show thee what these"
Zechariah 1:19: "unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These"
Zechariah 1:21: "Then said I, What come these to do? And he spoke, saying, These"
Zechariah 2:2: "Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length"
Zechariah 2:2: "to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length"
Zechariah 4:2: "And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold"
Zechariah 4:4: "the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?"
Zechariah 4:5: "unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord."
Zechariah 4:11: "Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon"
Zechariah 4:12: "again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which"
Zechariah 4:13: "And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No,"
Zechariah 5:2: "And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see"
Zechariah 5:5: "now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth."
Zechariah 5:6: "And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said"
Zechariah 6:4: "unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?"
Zechariah 7:3: "as I have done these so many years?"
Zechariah 9:17: "For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful,"
Zechariah 9:17: "For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful,"
Zechariah 13:6: "And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer,"
Malachi 1:2: "you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's"
Malachi 1:6: "that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?"
Malachi 1:7: "upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD"
Malachi 2:14: "Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between"
Malachi 2:15: "one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed."
Malachi 2:17: "the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth"
Malachi 3:7: "unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?"
Malachi 3:8: "ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings."
Malachi 3:13: "me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against"
