Word meanings
Strong's dictionary
or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; 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.
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Genesis 47:8 כַּמָּ֕ה ka.Mah · Stands in for a person or thing
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life?
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Genesis 47:15 וְלָ֥מָּה ve.La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing
And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for our money faileth.
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Genesis 47:19 לָ֧מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing
wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.
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