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 Chronicles 21:3: "then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?"
1 Chronicles 21:12: "the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again"
1 Chronicles 21:17: "and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee,"
2 Chronicles 1:7: "unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give"
2 Chronicles 7:21: "that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this"
2 Chronicles 10:9: "And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer"
2 Chronicles 10:16: "the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance"
2 Chronicles 18:15: "And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure"
2 Chronicles 18:20: "him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?"
2 Chronicles 19:6: "to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge"
2 Chronicles 20:12: "us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon"
2 Chronicles 24:20: "and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye"
2 Chronicles 25:9: "said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which"
2 Chronicles 25:15: "unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people,"
2 Chronicles 25:16: "of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbore, and said,"
2 Chronicles 25:19: "abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou,"
2 Chronicles 32:4: "through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find"
2 Chronicles 32:10: "Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide"
2 Chronicles 32:13: "Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people"
2 Chronicles 35:21: "ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against"
Ezra 6:9: " And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God"
Ezra 9:10: "And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken"
Nehemiah 2:4: "Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed"
Nehemiah 2:12: "me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart"
Nehemiah 2:16: "not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as"
Nehemiah 2:19: "it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that"
Nehemiah 4:2: "and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify"
Nehemiah 6:3: "work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst"
Nehemiah 13:17: "the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that"
Esther 1:15: " What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not"
Esther 2:11: "house, to know how Esther did, and what should become"
Esther 4:5: "her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why"
Esther 4:5: "Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it"
Esther 5:3: "Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given"
Esther 5:3: "unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half"
Esther 5:6: "unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request?"
Esther 5:6: "What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom"
Esther 6:3: "And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for"
Esther 6:6: "came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king"
Esther 7:2: "day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted"
Esther 7:2: "queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half"
Esther 8:1: "for Esther had told what he"
Esther 9:12: "and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces?"
Esther 9:12: "in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request"
Esther 9:12: "now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done."
Esther 9:26: "for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning"
Esther 9:26: "letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto"
Job 3:11: " Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?"
Job 3:12: "Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?"
Job 3:20: " Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;"
