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:
1 Samuel 28:15: "said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul"
1 Samuel 28:15: "prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do."
1 Samuel 28:16: "Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from"
1 Samuel 29:3: "Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said"
1 Samuel 29:4: "with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile"
1 Samuel 29:8: "unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant"
1 Samuel 29:8: "But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long"
2 Samuel 1:4: "And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell"
2 Samuel 1:13: "unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered,"
2 Samuel 2:22: "Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how"
2 Samuel 3:24: "to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came"
2 Samuel 3:24: "Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?"
2 Samuel 6:20: "to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today,"
2 Samuel 7:7: "Israel, saying, Why build ye not me a house of cedar?"
2 Samuel 7:20: " And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord"
2 Samuel 9:8: "And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such"
2 Samuel 11:21: "him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall?"
2 Samuel 12:21: "Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done?"
2 Samuel 12:23: "But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back"
2 Samuel 13:26: "with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with"
2 Samuel 14:5: "And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman,"
2 Samuel 14:13: "And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God?"
2 Samuel 14:31: "unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field"
2 Samuel 14:32: "that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur?"
2 Samuel 15:19: "to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with"
2 Samuel 16:2: "said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses"
2 Samuel 16:9: "of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse"
2 Samuel 16:10: "And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because"
2 Samuel 16:17: "thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?"
2 Samuel 16:20: "Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do."
2 Samuel 17:5: "also, and let us hear likewise what he saith."
2 Samuel 18:22: "again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also"
2 Samuel 18:22: "after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run,"
2 Samuel 18:23: " But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way"
2 Samuel 18:29: "tumult, but I knew not what"
2 Samuel 19:10: "us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing"
2 Samuel 19:11: "the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring"
2 Samuel 19:12: "ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back"
2 Samuel 19:22: "And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be"
2 Samuel 19:25: "the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?"
2 Samuel 19:28: "thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet"
2 Samuel 19:29: "And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou"
2 Samuel 19:34: "said unto the king, How long have I to live, that"
2 Samuel 19:35: "the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden"
2 Samuel 19:36: "Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such"
2 Samuel 19:42: "Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for"
2 Samuel 20:19: "a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?"
2 Samuel 21:3: "said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless"
2 Samuel 21:3: "the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance"
2 Samuel 21:4: "any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do"
