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

161. Judges 13:8 מַֽה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     Then Manoah entreated Jehovah, and said, Oh, Lord, I pray thee, let the man of God whom thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

162. Judges 13:12 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass: what shall be the ordering of the child, and how shall we do unto him?

163. Judges 13:18 לָ֥מָּה La.mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And the angel of Jehovah said unto him, Wherefore askest thou after my name, seeing it is wonderful?

164. Judges 14:18 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, Ye had not found out my riddle.

165. Judges 14:18 וּמֶ֥ה u.Meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, Ye had not found out my riddle.

166. Judges 15:10 לָמָ֖ה la.Mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.

167. Judges 15:11 וּמַה־ u.mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

168. Judges 16:5 בַּמֶּה֙ ba.Meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

169. Judges 16:5 וּבַמֶּה֙ u.va.Meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

170. Judges 16:6 בַּמֶּ֖ה ba.Meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

171. Judges 16:6 וּבַמֶּ֥ה u.va.Meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

172. Judges 16:10 בַּמֶּ֖ה ba.Meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.

173. Judges 16:13 בַּמֶּ֖ה ba.Meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.

174. Judges 16:15 בַּמֶּ֖ה ba.Meh · Stands in for a person or thing

     And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

175. Judges 18:3 וּמָֽה־ u.mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

176. Judges 18:3 וּמַה־ u.mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

177. Judges 18:8 מָ֥ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?

178. Judges 18:14 מַֽה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

179. Judges 18:18 מָ֥ה mah · Stands in for a person or thing

     And when these went into Micah's house, and fetched the graven image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said unto them, What do ye?

180. Judges 18:23 מַה־ mah- · Stands in for a person or thing

     And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?

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