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

121. Numbers 23:11 מֶ֥ה meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

122. Numbers 23:17 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath Jehovah spoken?

123. Numbers 23:23 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shalt it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!

124. Numbers 24:5 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel!

125. Numbers 24:22 מָ֖ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

126. Numbers 27:4 לָ֣מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.

127. Numbers 32:7 וְלָ֣מָּה ve.La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah hath given them?

128. Deuteronomy 5:25 לָ֣מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more, then we shall die.

129. Deuteronomy 6:20 מָ֣ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

130. Deuteronomy 10:12 מָ֚ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

131. Deuteronomy 29:24 מֶ֨ה meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

132. Deuteronomy 29:24 מֶ֥ה meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

133. Deuteronomy 32:20 מָ֣ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

134. Joshua 4:6 מָ֛ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     that this may be a sign among you, that, when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

135. Joshua 4:21 מָ֖ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

136. Joshua 5:14 מָ֥ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he said, Nay; but as prince of the host of Jehovah am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?

137. Joshua 7:7 לָ֠מָה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan!

138. Joshua 7:8 מָ֣ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies!

139. Joshua 7:9 וּמַֽה־ u.mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do for thy great name?

140. Joshua 7:10 לָ֣מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore art thou thus fallen upon thy face?

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