מָה

mah · what?

Hebrew · Strong's H4100 · Pronoun · Sounds like: maw · 753 occurrences

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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מָה, rarely מָה־, מַה־, מַה‍ּ, מֶה, מַ‍ּ, מָ—pron.interrog. and indef. what? how? aught
1. interrog. what?
2. Used adverbially
3. Indef. pron.
4. With preps.

Every occurrence

  1. Job 37:19 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

    Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness.

  2. Job 38:6 מָ֭ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

    Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,

  3. Job 40:4 מָ֣ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

    Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

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