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:
2 Samuel 24:3: "a hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king"
2 Samuel 24:13: "now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent"
2 Samuel 24:17: "have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be"
1 Kings 1:16: "unto the king. And the king said, What"
1 Kings 2:22: "answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag"
1 Kings 3:5: "and God said, Ask what I shall give"
1 Kings 9:8: "it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this"
1 Kings 9:13: "And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called"
1 Kings 11:22: "Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold,"
1 Kings 12:9: "And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer"
1 Kings 12:16: "answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither"
1 Kings 14:3: "to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child."
1 Kings 14:6: "Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I"
1 Kings 14:14: "of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now."
1 Kings 17:18: "And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto"
1 Kings 18:9: "And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant"
1 Kings 19:9: "of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?"
1 Kings 19:13: "there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?"
1 Kings 19:20: "thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done"
1 Kings 21:5: "to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest"
1 Kings 22:16: "said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that"
1 Kings 22:22: "And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying"
2 Kings 1:5: "unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?"
2 Kings 1:7: "And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet"
2 Kings 2:9: "unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from"
2 Kings 3:13: "unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father,"
2 Kings 4:2: "And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast"
2 Kings 4:2: "her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid"
2 Kings 4:13: "all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to"
2 Kings 4:14: "And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child,"
2 Kings 4:43: "And his servitor said, What, should I set this before a hundred men?"
2 Kings 5:8: "to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now"
2 Kings 6:28: "And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto"
2 Kings 6:33: "evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?"
2 Kings 7:3: "one to another, Why sit we here until"
2 Kings 8:13: "And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do"
2 Kings 8:14: "and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered,"
2 Kings 9:18: "the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind"
2 Kings 9:19: "the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind"
2 Kings 9:22: "Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother"
2 Kings 14:10: "hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall,"
2 Kings 18:19: "king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?"
2 Kings 20:8: "said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal"
2 Kings 20:14: "Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence"
2 Kings 20:15: "And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All"
2 Kings 23:17: "Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men"
1 Chronicles 12:32: "which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads"
1 Chronicles 17:6: "to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house"
1 Chronicles 17:18: " What can David speak more to thee for the honor of thy servant?"
1 Chronicles 21:3: "all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why"
