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

341. 2 Kings 18:19 מָ֧ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

342. 2 Kings 20:8 מָ֣ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Jehovah will heal me, and that I shall go up unto the house of Jehovah the third day?

343. 2 Kings 20:14 מָ֥ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.

344. 2 Kings 20:15 מָ֥ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.

345. 2 Kings 23:17 מָ֚ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     Then he said, What monument is that which I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.

346. 1 Chronicles 12:32 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And of the children of Issachar, men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.

347. 1 Chronicles 15:13 לְמַבָּרִ֥אשׁוֹנָ֖ה le.ma.ba.Ri.sho.Nah · Stands in for a person or thing

     For because ye bare it not at the first, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not according to the ordinance.

348. 1 Chronicles 17:6 לָ֛מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     In all places wherein I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedar?

349. 1 Chronicles 17:18 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     What can David say yet more unto thee concerning the honor which is done to thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.

350. 1 Chronicles 21:3 לָ֣מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Joab said, Jehovah make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?

351. 1 Chronicles 21:3 לָ֛מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Joab said, Jehovah make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?

352. 1 Chronicles 21:12 מָֽה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

353. 1 Chronicles 21:17 מֶ֣ה meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, O Jehovah my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against thy people, that they should be plagued.

354. 2 Chronicles 1:7 מָ֥ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.

355. 2 Chronicles 7:21 בַּמֶּ֨ה ba.Meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And this house, which is so high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?

356. 2 Chronicles 10:9 מָ֚ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he said unto them, What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter?

357. 2 Chronicles 10:16 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So all Israel departed unto their tents.

358. 2 Chronicles 18:15 כַּמֶּ֥ה ka.Meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou speak unto me nothing but the truth in the name of Jehovah?

359. 2 Chronicles 18:20 בַּמָּֽה׃ ba.Mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Jehovah, and said, I will entice him. And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith?

360. 2 Chronicles 19:6 מָֽה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     and said to the judges, Consider what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for Jehovah; and he is with you in the judgment.

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