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:
Judges 6:13: "if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where"
Judges 6:15: "unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold,"
Judges 7:11: "And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host."
Judges 8:1: "of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not,"
Judges 8:2: "And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim"
Judges 8:3: "Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger"
Judges 9:2: "of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal,"
Judges 9:48: "the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do"
Judges 11:12: "of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight"
Judges 12:3: "and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day,"
Judges 13:8: "come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born."
Judges 13:12: "Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do"
Judges 13:18: "And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it"
Judges 14:18: "before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what"
Judges 14:18: "What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion?"
Judges 15:10: "And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind"
Judges 15:11: "thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said"
Judges 16:5: "her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail"
Judges 16:5: "wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we"
Judges 16:6: "Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound"
Judges 16:6: "wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict"
Judges 16:10: "me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound."
Judges 16:13: "thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said"
Judges 16:15: "times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength"
Judges 18:3: "unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what"
Judges 18:3: "makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?"
Judges 18:8: "and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?"
Judges 18:14: "and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do."
Judges 18:18: "Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?"
Judges 18:23: "their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?"
Judges 18:24: "I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say"
Judges 18:24: "and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What"
Judges 18:24: "is this that ye say unto me, What"
Judges 20:12: "the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done"
Judges 21:3: "O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today"
Judges 21:7: " How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not"
Judges 21:16: "Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing"
Ruth 1:11: "said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons"
Ruth 1:21: "and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified"
1 Samuel 1:8: "Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not?"
1 Samuel 1:8: "to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart"
1 Samuel 1:8: "thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I"
1 Samuel 2:23: "And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear"
1 Samuel 2:29: " Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honorest"
1 Samuel 3:17: "And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide"
1 Samuel 4:3: "the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us today before"
1 Samuel 4:6: "the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout"
1 Samuel 4:14: "the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man"
1 Samuel 4:16: "out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?"
1 Samuel 5:8: "of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?"
