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)

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141. Joshua 7:19 מֶ֣ה meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to Jehovah, the God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

142. Joshua 7:25 מֶ֣ה meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? Jehovah shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.

143. Joshua 9:22 לָמָּה֩ la.Mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?

144. Joshua 15:18 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said, What wouldest thou?

145. Joshua 22:16 מָֽה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     Thus saith the whole congregation of Jehovah, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Jehovah, in that ye have builded you an altar, to rebel this day against Jehovah?

146. Joshua 22:24 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     and if we have not rather out of carefulness done this, and of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with Jehovah, the God of Israel?

147. Judges 1:14 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?

148. Judges 2:2 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down their altars. But ye have not hearkened unto my voice: why have ye done this?

149. Judges 5:16 לָ֣מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, To hear the pipings for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.

150. Judges 5:17 לָ֥מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     Gilead abode beyond the Jordan: And Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, And abode by his creeks.

151. Judges 6:13 וְלָ֥מָּה ve.La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Gideon said unto him, Oh, my lord, if Jehovah is with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Jehovah bring us up from Egypt? but now Jehovah hath cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.

152. Judges 6:15 בַּמָּ֥ה ba.Mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he said unto him, Oh, Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

153. Judges 7:11 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     and thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thy hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant unto the outermost part of the armed men that were in the camp.

154. Judges 8:1 מָֽה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with Midian? And they did chide with him sharply.

155. Judges 8:2 מֶה־ meh- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And he said unto them, What have I now done in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

156. Judges 8:3 וּמַה־ u.mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison with you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

157. Judges 9:2 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are threescore and ten persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.

158. Judges 9:48 מָ֤ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

159. Judges 11:12 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come unto me to fight against my land?

160. Judges 12:3 וְלָמָ֞ה ve.la.Mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

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