מָה

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)

Every occurrence

181. Judges 18:24 וּמַה־ u.mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye unto me, What aileth thee?

182. Judges 18:24 וּמַה־ u.mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye unto me, What aileth thee?

183. Judges 18:24 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye unto me, What aileth thee?

184. Judges 20:12 מָ֚ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is come to pass among you?

185. Judges 21:3 לָמָ֗ה la.Mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And they said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?

186. Judges 21:7 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

187. Judges 21:16 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

188. Ruth 1:11 לָ֥מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

189. Ruth 1:21 לָ֣מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     I went out full, and Jehovah hath brought me home again empty; why call ye me Naomi, seeing Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

190. 1 Samuel 1:8 לָ֣מֶה La.meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

191. 1 Samuel 1:8 וְלָ֙מֶה֙ ve.La.meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

192. 1 Samuel 1:8 וְלָ֖מֶה ve.La.meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

193. 1 Samuel 2:23 לָ֥מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

194. 1 Samuel 2:29 לָ֣מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

195. 1 Samuel 3:17 מָ֤ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he said, What is the thing that Jehovah hath spoken unto thee? I pray thee, hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide anything from me of all the things that he spake unto thee.

196. 1 Samuel 4:3 לָ֣מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath Jehovah smitten us to-day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of Shiloh unto us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.

197. 1 Samuel 4:6 מֶ֠ה meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of Jehovah was come into the camp.

198. 1 Samuel 4:14 מֶ֛ה meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man hasted, and came and told Eli.

199. 1 Samuel 4:16 מֶֽה־ meh- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to-day out of the army. And he said, How went the matter, my son?

200. 1 Samuel 5:8 מַֽה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel thither.

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