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:
Numbers 11:11: "Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in thy sight,"
Numbers 11:20: "which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth"
Numbers 13:18: "And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein,"
Numbers 13:19: " And what the land is that they dwell in whether it be good or"
Numbers 13:19: "be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell"
Numbers 13:20: " And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood"
Numbers 14:3: " And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword,"
Numbers 14:41: "And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment"
Numbers 15:34: "because it was not declared what should be done"
Numbers 16:11: "are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against"
Numbers 20:4: " And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness,"
Numbers 20:5: " And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this"
Numbers 21:5: "spoke against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die"
Numbers 22:19: "here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more."
Numbers 22:28: "of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these"
Numbers 22:32: "of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass"
Numbers 22:37: "earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto"
Numbers 23:3: "the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went"
Numbers 23:8: " How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD"
Numbers 23:8: "whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?"
Numbers 23:11: "said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies,"
Numbers 23:17: "with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?"
Numbers 23:23: "it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!"
Numbers 24:5: " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!"
Numbers 24:22: "Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive."
Numbers 27:4: " Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because"
Numbers 32:7: " And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over"
Deuteronomy 5:25: "Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume"
Deuteronomy 6:20: "asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which"
Deuteronomy 10:12: "And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of"
Deuteronomy 29:24: "done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great"
Deuteronomy 29:24: "Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus"
Deuteronomy 32:20: "my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward"
Joshua 4:6: "ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?"
Joshua 4:21: "their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?"
Joshua 5:14: "to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?"
Joshua 7:7: "Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this"
Joshua 7:8: "O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth"
Joshua 7:9: "our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?"
Joshua 7:10: "unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon"
Joshua 7:19: "confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from"
Joshua 7:25: "And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day."
Joshua 9:22: "for them, and he spoke unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very"
Joshua 15:18: "off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What"
Joshua 22:16: "the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed"
Joshua 22:24: "In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God"
Judges 1:14: "from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What"
Judges 2:2: "but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?"
Judges 5:16: " Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions"
Judges 5:17: "abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher"
