Strong H4100מָה

what?

Transliteration
mâh mah mâ ma meh
Pronunciation
{maw} {mah} {maw} {mah} meh
Morphology
Hebrew Interogative

Definition

A primitive particle; properly interrogitive what ? (including {how ?} why ? and when ?); but also exclamations like what ! (including {how !}) or indefinitely what (including {whatever} and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses: - how ({long} {oft} {[-soever]}) [no-] {thing} what ({end} {good} {purpose} {thing}) whereby ({-fore} {-in} {-to} {-with}) (for) why.

Detailed definition

interr pron
1) what, how, of what kind
1a) (interrogative)
1a1) what?
1a2) of what kind
1a3) what? (rhetorical)
1a4) whatsoever, whatever, what
1b) (adverb)
1b1) how, how now
1b2) why
1b3) how! (exclamation)
1c) (with prep)
1c1) wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means?
1c2) because of what?
1c3) the like of what?
1c3a) how much?, how many?, how often?
1c3b) for how long?
1c4) for what reason?, why?, to what purpose?
1c5) until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore?
indef pron
2) anything, aught, what may

In the Bible

Strong H4100 appears in 27 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • what4
  • how3
  • wherefore3
  • end1
  • for1
  • good1
  • howsoever1
  • long1
  • nothing1
  • thee1
  • thence1
  • thing1

First verses

  1. Genesis 4:10
    And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
  2. Genesis 15:8
    And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
  3. Genesis 18:13
    And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
  4. Genesis 20:10
    And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
  5. Genesis 27:45
    Until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
  6. Genesis 27:46
    And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
  7. Genesis 33:15
    And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
  8. Genesis 47:8
    And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
  9. Numbers 23:8
    How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?
  10. Joshua 7:25
    And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
  11. Judges 6:15
    And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.
  12. Judges 8:1
    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 the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
  13. 1 Samuel 14:38
    And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
  14. 1 Samuel 19:3
    And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.
  15. 2 Samuel 1:4
    And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
  16. 2 Samuel 18:22
    Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?
  17. Job 7:19
    How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
  18. Job 30:2
    Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
  19. Psalms 78:40
    How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
  20. Proverbs 9:13
    A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
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