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:
Genesis 42:28: "one to another, What is this that God hath done"
Genesis 43:6: "And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?"
Genesis 44:4: "after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil"
Genesis 44:7: "And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid"
Genesis 44:15: "And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? know"
Genesis 44:16: "And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how"
Genesis 44:16: "What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God"
Genesis 44:16: "unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out"
Genesis 46:33: "Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?"
Genesis 47:3: "said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh,"
Genesis 47:8: "said unto Jacob, How old"
Genesis 47:15: "unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence?"
Genesis 47:19: " Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy"
Exodus 2:4: "stood afar off, to know what would be done"
Exodus 2:13: "strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?"
Exodus 2:20: "unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man?"
Exodus 3:13: "hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto"
Exodus 3:13: "you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto"
Exodus 4:2: "And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod."
Exodus 5:4: "of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let"
Exodus 5:15: "unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?"
Exodus 5:22: "the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why"
Exodus 5:22: "hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent"
Exodus 10:26: "and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until"
Exodus 12:26: "your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?"
Exodus 13:14: "asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength"
Exodus 14:5: "against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let"
Exodus 14:11: "in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth"
Exodus 14:15: "said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto"
Exodus 15:24: "against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?"
Exodus 16:7: "your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against"
Exodus 16:8: "ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against"
Exodus 16:15: "for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto"
Exodus 17:2: "that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt"
Exodus 17:2: "unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?"
Exodus 17:3: "against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt,"
Exodus 17:4: "unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost"
Exodus 18:14: "did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou"
Exodus 22:27: "it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth"
Exodus 32:1: "out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become"
Exodus 32:11: "his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which"
Exodus 32:12: " Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains,"
Exodus 32:21: "said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that"
Exodus 32:23: "out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become"
Exodus 33:5: "put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do"
Exodus 33:16: " For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace"
Leviticus 25:20: "And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not"
Numbers 9:7: "are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer"
Numbers 9:8: "unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command"
Numbers 11:11: "said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not"
