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. Leviticus 25:20 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

    And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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