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:
Job 6:11: " What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong"
Job 6:11: "is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?"
Job 6:24: "me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred."
Job 6:25: " How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?"
Job 6:25: "forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?"
Job 7:17: " What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon"
Job 7:19: " How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down"
Job 7:20: "I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark"
Job 7:20: "shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden"
Job 7:21: " And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for"
Job 9:2: "I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with"
Job 9:12: "him? who will say unto him, What doest"
Job 9:29: "If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain?"
Job 10:2: "Do not condemn me; show me wherefore thou contendest"
Job 10:18: " Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen"
Job 11:8: "It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what"
Job 11:8: "canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?"
Job 13:13: "may speak, and let come on me what"
Job 13:14: " Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?"
Job 13:23: " How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin."
Job 13:24: " Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?"
Job 15:9: " What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in"
Job 15:12: " Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,"
Job 15:12: "Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,"
Job 15:14: " What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?"
Job 16:3: "words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?"
Job 16:6: "is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?"
Job 19:22: " Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?"
Job 19:28: "But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found"
Job 21:15: " What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray"
Job 21:15: "is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray"
Job 21:17: " How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth"
Job 21:21: "For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?"
Job 22:13: "And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?"
Job 22:17: "unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do"
Job 23:5: "the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say"
Job 25:4: " How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born"
Job 25:4: "be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?"
Job 26:2: " How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?"
Job 26:3: " How hast thou counseled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing"
Job 26:14: "these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder"
Job 27:8: "For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God"
Job 27:12: "all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?"
Job 30:2: "Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?"
Job 31:1: "I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?"
Job 31:2: " For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?"
Job 31:14: " What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what"
Job 31:14: "riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer"
Job 34:4: "to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good."
Job 34:33: "choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest."
