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Lexicon :: Strong's H4100 - mâ

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מָה
Transliteration
mâ
Pronunciation
maw
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Part of Speech
indefinite pronoun, interrogative pronoun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive particle
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TWOT Reference: 1149

Strong’s Definitions

מָה mâh, maw; or מַה mah; or מָ mâ; or מַ ma; also מֶה meh; 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.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's H4100 in the following manner: what, how, why, whereby, wherein, how long, how oft, to what end.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's H4100 in the following manner: what, how, why, whereby, wherein, how long, how oft, to what end.
interrogative pronoun

  1. what, how, of what kind

    1. (interrogative)

      1. what?

      2. of what kind

      3. what? (rhetorical)

      4. whatsoever, whatever, what

    2. (adverb)

      1. how, how now

      2. why

      3. how! (exclamation)

    3. (with preposition)

      1. wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means?

      2. because of what?

      3. the like of what?

        1. how much?, how many?, how often?

        2. for how long?

      4. for what reason?, why?, to what purpose?

      5. until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore?

        indefinite pronoun

  2. anything, aught, what may

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָה mâh, maw; or מַה mah; or מָ mâ; or מַ ma; also מֶה meh; 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.
STRONGS H4100: Abbreviations
מָה, rarely מָהֿ (e.g. Genesis 31:43; Joshua 22:16; Judges 8:1), מַה־, •מַה, מֶה, •מַ († Exodus 4:2; Isaiah 3:15; Malachi 1:13; 1 Chronicles 15:13; [H4078 2 Chronicles 30:3]), מָ (only in מָהֵם † Ezekiel 8:6 Kt., Qr. מָה הֵם) — on the distinction in the use of these forms, see Ges§ 37 — pronoun interrogative and indefinite what? how? aught; used of things, as מִי of persons (Aramaic bdb055201, מָא, Arabic bdb055202; probably apocope from a longer form with n or nt, Assyrian minû (DlHWB 417 f.), Ethiopic bdb055203ment; compare WCG 123 ff. Köii. 368): —
1. interrogative what ?
a. in a direct question, before either verbs or nouns Genesis 4:10 מֶה עשׂית what hast thou done ? Genesis 15:2 מהתֿתןלֿי what wilt thou give me ? Exodus 3:13 מַהשְּֿׁמוֺ, Exodus 12:26; Exodus 13:14 and so very often: מַההִֿיא Zechariah 5:6; מה אלה Zechariah 1:9; מָה אַתָּה רֹאֶה Jeremiah 1:11; Amos 7:8 +; Jl 4:14 מה אתם לי; Judges 18:8 מה אתם see Commentaries, Judges 18:24 מה לי עוד what have I still ? Isaiah 21:11 מהמֿלילה what (= how much) of the night (is past) ? = as what ? (qualem ?) Haggai 2:3 (compare מִי Amos 7:2); to express surprise, Job 9:12 who shall say to him, מה תעשׂה what doest thou ? Job 22:13; Ecclesiastes 8:4; Isaiah 45:9, 10; followed by כִּי, Genesis 20:10 מה ראית כי עשׂית what hadst thou in view, that thou hast done, etc.? Genesis 31:36; Exodus 16:7 וְנַחְנוּ מָה כִּי and what are we, that...? Exodus 32:21; Numbers 22:28; Habakkuk 2:18, etc. Note in particular —
(a) מָה is followed sometimes by a substantive in apposition (against Arabic usage, which does not permit this: WAG. ii. § 170), so that it becomes virtually an adjective: מַהבֶּֿצַע what profit...? Genesis 37:26; Psalm 30:10; Malachi 3:14; Isaiah 40:8 מַהדְּֿמוּת, Malachi 1:13; Psalm 89:48 זְכָראֲֿנִי מֶה חָ֑לֶד (inverted for חֶלֶד אָ֑נִי מַה) remember (of) what (short) duration I am, Ecclesiastes 1:3; Ecclesiastes 5:10; Ecclesiastes 5:15; Ecclesiastes 6:8, 11 (Da§ 8, R. 2 Köiii. 23 f.); as exclamation, Psalm 89:48b Job 26:14. And with the substantive idiomatically at the end (in Arabic preceded then by bdb055204: WAG. ii. § 49. 7), 1 Samuel 26:18 ומַהבֿידי רעה and what is there in my hand, evil ? 1 Samuel 20:10 (see 3), 2 Samuel 19:29; 2 Samuel 24:13; 1 Kings 12:16; Jeremiah 2:5 מהמֿצאו אבותיכם בי עָוֶל, Ecclesiastes 11:2; Esther 6:3.
(b) מַהזֶּֿה what now ? 1 Samuel 10:11, contracted מַזֶּה † Exodus 4:2 (זֶה 4 c); Genesis 3:13 מַהזּֿאֹת עָשִׂיתָ; Genesis 12:18; Genesis 29:25 מַהזּֿאֹת עָשִׂיתָה לִּי; similarly Genesis 26:10; Genesis 42:28 +, either what, now, hast thou done ? or what is this that thou hast done ? (see זֶה 4 d).
(c) לְּךָ מַהֿ what to thee ? i.e. what aileth thee ? or what dost thou want ? Genesis 21:17 מַהלָּֿךְ הָגָר; Joshua 15:18; 2 Samuel 14:5; 1 Kings 1:16; 2 Kings 6:28; Ezekiel 18:2 (accents); followed by כִּי, Judges 18:23 מהלֿך כי נזעקת, Genesis 20:9 (compare 1 Samuel 11:5 לעם כי יבכו מה), Isaiah 22:1 מַהלָּֿךְ כִּי עָלִיתְ (compare τί παθὼν, τοῦτο ποιεῖς), Psalm 114:5; without כִּי Isaiah 3:15 (compare Qor 57:8; 57:10); with a participle, Jonah 1:6 what is it to thee as a sleeper ? (accusative: Da§ 70 a cites Qor 74:50), Ezekiel 18:2 (if אתם be treated as strengthening לכם).
(d) פֹה (לִי) מַהלְּֿךָ = what hast thou (have I) here ? Judges 18:3; 1 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 22:16; Isaiah 52:5.
(e) in the genitive, Jeremiah 8:9 וְחָכְמַתמֶֿה לָהֶם, and wisdom of what (= what kind of wisdom) is theirs ? Numbers 23:3 (see below 3).
b. often in an indirect question, as after ראה, Genesis 2:19 to see מהיֿקראלֿו what he would call it, Genesis 37:20 וְנִרְאֶה מהיֿהיו חלֹמֹתיו to what his dreams will come, Numbers 13:19f.; Habakkuk 2:1; הִכִּיר Genesis 31:32; ידע Genesis 39:8; Exodus 2:4 לדעת מהיֵּֿעָשֶׂה לו, Exodus 16:15; Exodus 32:1; Job 34:4; שׁמע Numbers 9:8 וְאשׁמעה מהיֿצוה י׳ (compare Psalm 85:9), 2 Samuel 17:5; פֹּרַשׁ Numbers 15:34; שׁאל 1 Kings 3:5; 2 Kings 2:9; הֵבִין Job 6:24; Job 23:5: Numbers 13:18 מה היא וראיתם את הארץ, Psalm 39:5; Isaiah 41:22 הראשׁנות מָה הֵנָּה הַגִּידוּ. — In some such cases it approximates in meaning to the simple rel., as Jeremiah 7:17; Jeremiah 33:24; Micah 6:5, 8; Job 34:33.
c. = of what kind ? (German was für ein... ?), with an insinuation of blame, or reproach, or contempt: Genesis 37:10 מה החלום הזה what is this dream which thou hast dreamt? Genesis 44:15; Joshua 22:16; Judges 8:1; Judges 15:11; Judges 20:12; 1 Samuel 29:3 מָה הָעִבְרִים האלה, 1 Kings 9:13 מה העדים האלה אשׁר נתתה לי, 2 Kings 9:22; 2 Kings 18:19.
d. מה is often used in questions to which the answer little, or nothing, is expected, and it thus becomes equivalent to a rhetorical negative (compare הֲ b, מִי f c):
(a) Genesis 23:15 land worth 400 shekels..., מה היא what is it ? (i.e. it is something quite insignificant), Genesis 27:37; Judges 8:3 עשׂות ככם ומהיֿכלתי, Judges 14:18; Hosea 9:5; Hosea 10:3; Psalm 30:10; Psalm 56:5; Job 15:9; Job 16:6; Job 21:21; Job 22:13, 17; Lamentations 2:13; Songs 5:9 מַהאדּוֺדֵךְ מִדּוֺד what is thy beloved (more) than a(nother) beloved ? || לא, 1 Kings 12:16 מַהלָּֿנוּ חֵלֶק בְּדָוֺד וְלֹאנַֿחֲלָה בְּבֶן יִשַׁי (2 Samuel 20:1 אֵיןלָֿנוּ חֵלֶק וג׳), Job 16:6.
(b) followed by כִּי (כִּי 1 f), Genesis 20:9; Genesis 37:26 מַהבֶּֿצַע כִּי נַהֲרֹג what profit (is it) that we should slay him ? Exodus 16:7; Numbers 16:11; Habakkuk 2:18; 2 Kings 8:13 what is thy servant, the dog, that he should do, etc.? and often in poetry, as Psalm 8:5 מָה אנושׁ כי תזכרנו what is man that thou rememberest him ? Job 6:11 מַהכֹּֿחִי כִּי אֲיַחֵל, Job 6:11b; Job 7:17; Job 15:12f; Job 15:14; Job 16:3; Job 21:15 + (compare מִ׳ f. b). Hence,
(c) in the formula of repudiation, or emphatic denial, (וְלָכֶם) מַהלִּֿי וָלָךְ what is there (common) to me and to thee ? i.e. what have I to do with thee ? † Judges 11:12; 2 Samuel 16:10 מה לי ולכם, 2 Samuel 19:23; 1 Kings 17:18; 2 Kings 3:13; 2 Chronicles 35:21; compare Joshua 22:24; 2 Kings 9:18, 19; rather differently, without וְ, † Jeremiah 2:18 מה לך לדרך מ׳ what is there to thee with reference to the way to Egypt ? Hosea 14:9 מַהאלּוֺ לַעֲצַבִּים, compare Psalm 50:16 (לֽסַפֵּר); with את, † Jeremiah 23:28 מַהלַֿתֶּבֶן אֶתהַֿבָּר beside (or in comparison with) the wheat ? compare τί ἐμοὶ (ἡμῖν) καὶ σοί; Matthew 8:29; Mark 5:7; John 2:4; and Arabic bdb055301
e. = whatsoever (compare מִי g):
(a) Judges 9:48 ראיתם עשׂיתי מהרו עשׂו כמוני מה אתם, literally what do you see (that) I have done ? hasten, and do like me (= whatever ye see, etc.), 2 Samuel 21:4 אעשׂה לכם מה אתם אמרים, Job 6:24; with the apodosis introduced by וְ, 1 Samuel 20:4 מה תאמר נפשׁך ואעשׂה לך; Esther 5:3 בַּקָּשָׁתֵךְ ֗֗֗ וְיִנָּתֵן לָךְ מַהֿ, Esther 5:6; Esther 7:2; Esther 9:12; hence in the late and strange idiom of Chronicles, it sinks twice almost to the rel. what, 1 Chronicles 15:13 כי לְמַבָּרִאשׁוֺנָה לא אתם because ye were not (employed) for what was at first (on the former occasion), J. etc., [H4078 2 Chronicles 30:3] לְמַדַּי according to what was sufficient (= in sufficient numbers), compare Esther 9:26.
(b) -מַהשֶּֿׁ (late: frequently in Mishna, etc.), whatever, what (compare מִי אֲשֶׁר, מִי g. end): † Ecclesiastes 1:9 מַהשֶּֿׁהָיָה הוּא שֶׁיִּהְיֶה, literally what is that which hath been ? it is that which shall be (= whatever hath been, it is that which shall be), Ecclesiastes 1:9; Ecclesiastes 3:15, 22; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Ecclesiastes 7:24; Ecclesiastes 8:7; Ecclesiastes 10:14.
2. Used adverbially:
a. as an interrogative:
(a) how ? especially in expressing what is regarded as an impossibility, Genesis 44:16 מַהנִּֿצְטַדָּ֑ק how shall we justify ourselves ? Numbers 23:8 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 10:27 מַהיּֿשִׁעֵנוּ זֶה, 2 Kings 4:43; Job 9:2; Job 25:4 (twice in verse); Job 31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes, וּמָה אֶתְבּוֺנֵן עַל ב׳ and how should I look upon a maid ? (Greek Version of the LXX οὐ, Vulgate non), Proverbs 20:24 דַּרְכּוֺ וְאָדָם מַהיָּֿבִין; in an indirect question, Exodus 10:26; Psalm 39:5 אָ֑נִי מֶהחָֿדֵל; מַהזֶּֿה, how, now ? (in surprise), Genesis 27:20 מַהזֶּֿה מִהַרְתָּ לִמְצאֹ בְּנִי, Judges 18:24; 1 Kings 21:5; 2 Kings 1:5.
(b) why ? Exodus 14:15 אֵלַי מַה תִּצְעַק, Exodus 17:2 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 6:33; 2 Kings 7:3; Psalm 42:6 מַהתִּֿשְׁתּוֺחֲחִי עלי, Job 15:12 +; Songs 8:4 I adjure you מַהתָּֿעִירוּ וּמַהתְּֿעוֺרֲרוּ, why will ye stir up, etc.? (i.e. do not: || אִם Songs 2:7; Songs 3:5). — The transition from the interrogative to the negative, to which in Hebrew there is an approximate (see above: especially 1 Kings 12:16; Job 31:1; Songs 8:4), is in Arabic complete, bdb055302being there used constantly in the sense of not (compare WalkerHebraica. xii. 244 ff.; Köiii, 478).
b. as an exclamation, how...! with adjectives and verbs, Genesis 28:17 מַהנּֿוֺרָא הַמָּקוֺם הַזֶּה how dreadful is this place! Genesis 38:29; Numbers 24:5 מַהטֹּֿבוּ אֹהָלֶיךָ, Isaiah 52:7; Psalm 3:2 מה רבו, Psalm 8:2 מה אדיר, Psalm 21:2; Psalm 36:8, etc., Songs 4:10 (twice in verse); Songs 7:2; ironically, 2 Samuel 6:20; Jeremiah 2:33, 36; Job 26:2, 3.
3. indefinite pronoun anything, aught, Numbers 23:3 וּדְבַרמַֿהיַּֿרְאֵנִי וְהִגַּדְתִּי לָ֑ךְ and he will shew me the matter of aught, and I will tell thee (= if he shew me... I will, etc., Dr§ 149), 1 Samuel 19:3 וְרָאִיתִי מָה וִהִגַּדְתִּי לָ֑ךְ = and if I see aught, I will, etc., 1 Samuel 20:10 אוֺ מַהיַּֿעַנִךָ אָבִיךָ קָשָׁה if perchance thy father shall answer thee aught that is harsh (order, 1 a a), 2 Samuel 18:22 וִיהִימָֿה אָרוּצָהנָּֿא but let there happen what may (literally aught), I will run, 2 Samuel 18:23 (compare Job 13:13 וְיַעֲבֹר עָלַי מָה), Job 13:29 וְלֹא יָדַעְתִּי מָה (compare Proverbs 9:13), Proverbs 25:8. Compare Köiii. § 65.
4. With prepositions:
a. בַּמָּה 9, בַּמֶּה 19 wherein ? Exodus 22:26; Judges 16:5; 1 Samuel 14:38 (indirect question; We בְּמִי); and so according to the various senses of בְּ : whereby ? Genesis 15:8; Exodus 33:16; Malachi 1:2, 6, 7; Malachi 2:17; Malachi 3:7-8; wherewith ? 1 Samuel 6:2; 2 Samuel 21:3; Micah 6:6; by what means ? Judges 16:5 וּבַמֶּה נוּכַל לוֺ; at what (worth) ? Isaiah 2:22; for what ? 2 Chronicles 7:21 (|| 1 Kings 9:8 עלמֿה).
b. יַעַן מֶה † Haggai 1:9 because of what ?
†c. כַּמָּה, כַּמֶּה, properly the like of what ? (Arabic bdb055303, Syriac bdb055304); hence
(a) how much ? how many ? כַּמָּה יְמֵי וגו׳ Genesis 47:8; 2 Samuel 19:35; Psalm 119:84; Job 13:23; עַד כַּמֶּה פְעָמִים 1 Kings 22:16 (= 2 Chronicles 18:15); כַּמָּה how often ? Job 21:17 (i.e. how seldom !); in an indirect question, how much ? Zechariah 2:6 (twice in verse). As an exclamation, Zechariah 7:3 as I have done זֶה כַמֶּה שָׁנִים now (זֶה 4 i), how many years ! Psalm 78:40 כַּמָּה how often !
(b) for how long ? Psalm 35:17 כמה תראה, Job 7:19.
d. לָ֫מָּה, לָמָ֫ה (לָמָ֫ה mostly before the gutturals א, ה, ע and י׳ [i.e. אֲדֹנָי], but twice besides, Psalm 42:10; Psalm 43:2; לָ֫מָּה also occurs before guttural, in five places noted by Masoretes on Psalm 43:2, namely 1 Samuel 28:15; 2 Samuel 2:22; 2 Samuel 14:31; Psalm 49:6; Jeremiah 15:18, and before ח † Genesis 4:6; 2 Samuel 14:13; 2 Samuel 24:3; Ecclesiastes 2:15), לָ֫מָה † Job 7:20, לָ֫מֶה † 1 Samuel 1:8 (3 times in verse), for what reason ? why? Genesis 4:6 למה חרה לך why art thou angry ? Genesis 24:31, etc.; often strengthened by זֶה (זֶה 4 e), Genesis 18:13; Genesis 32:30 (= Judges 13:18) למה זה תשׁאל לשׁמי, Genesis 33:15; Exodus 2:20; Exodus 5:22; Exodus 17:3, etc., Jeremiah 6:20; Jeremiah 20:18 +; Genesis 25:22 זה אנכי אם כן למהֿ if so, why, then, am I ? (why do I continue to live ?); = to what purpose (followed by לִ person), Genesis 27:46 למה לי חיים, Isaiah 1:11; Jeremiah 6:20; Amos 5:18 למה זה לכם יום י׳, Job 30:2; in an indirect question, 1 Samuel 6:3; Daniel 10:20. Note especially
(a) in expostulations, Genesis 12:18 למה לא הגדת לי why didst thou not tell me, etc. ? Genesis 12:19; Genesis 29:25; Genesis 31:27; Genesis 42:1; Genesis 43:6; 1 Samuel 21:15; 1 Samuel 22:13; 1 Samuel 24:10; Psalm 22:2; Psalm 44:24; Psalm 44:25; Psalm 74:1; Psalm 74:11 + often;
(b) with an imperfect, often deprecating, or introducing rhetorically, the reason why something should, or should not, be done, why should...? 1 Samuel 19:5, 17; 1 Samuel 20:8 but to thy father (emphatic) למה זה תביאני, why shouldst thou bring me ? 1 Samuel 20:32 מה עשׂה למה יומת why should he be put to death ? 2 Samuel 13:26; 2 Samuel 16:9; 2 Samuel 20:19; 2 Kings 14:10, etc.: in such cases, it approximates in meaning to lest (compare Phoenician CISi. 2, 21 יסגרינם אלנם לָםָ ne tradant eos dii), and is in Greek Version of the LXX often rendered by μήποτε, as Genesis 27:45 למה אשׁכל why should I be bereaved, etc. ? Exodus 32:12 יאמרו מצרים למה Nehemiah 6:3; Psalm 79:10; Psalm 115:2; Ecclesiastes 7:16, μή, Jeremiah 40:15, ἵνα μή, Genesis 47:19; 2 Samuel 2:22; 2 Chronicles 25:16; Ecclesiastes 5:5; Ecclesiastes 7:17, or ὅπως μή, Joel 2:17 (in 1 Samuel 19:17; 2 Samuel 13:26, paraph. by εἰ μή); and, connected with the foregoing sentence by אשׁר, or שֶׁ, in late, or dialect., Hebrew it actually has that meaning, Daniel 1:10 אֲשֶׁר לָמָּה יִרְאֶה lest he see, Songs 1:7 שַׁלָּמָ֫ה אֶהְיֶה lest I become (so in Aramaic לְמָה דִּי Ezra 7:23, דִּילְמָא Targum, Syriac bdb055401, both regularly = lest).
e. עַדמָֿה (Psalm 4:3 עַדמֶֿה) until when ? how long ? † Numbers 24:22 (aposiop.), Psalm 4:3; Psalm 79:5; Psalm 89:47; in indirect question, Psalm 74:9 (compare עד אנה, עד מתי).
f. עַלמָֿה, and עַלמֶֿה, upon what ? Job 38:6; 2 Chronicles 32:10; upon what ground ? wherefore ? Numbers 22:32 עַלמָֿה הִכִּיתָ אֶתאֲֿתֹנְךָ, Deuteronomy 29:23 (compare 1 Kings 9:8; Jeremiah 22:8), Isaiah 1:5; Jeremiah 8:14; Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 16:10; Ezekiel 21:12; Psalm 10:13; Job 13:14 (probably dittograph from Job 13:13); עלמֿהזֿה Nehemiah 2:4. In an indirect question, Job 10:2 הוֺדִיעֻנִי עַל מַהתְּֿרִיבֻנִי, Esther 4:5 לָדַעַת מַהזֶּֿה וְעַלמַֿהוֶּֿה.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H4101.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:19; 3:13; 4:6; 4:6; 4:10; 12:18; 12:18; 12:19; 15:2; 15:8; 18:13; 20:9; 20:9; 20:10; 21:17; 23:15; 24:31; 25:22; 26:10; 27:20; 27:37; 27:45; 27:46; 28:17; 29:25; 29:25; 31:27; 31:32; 31:36; 31:43; 32:30; 33:15; 37:10; 37:20; 37:26; 37:26; 38:29; 39:8; 42:1; 42:28; 43:6; 44:15; 44:16; 47:8; 47:19

Exodus

2:4; 2:20; 3:13; 4:2; 4:2; 5:22; 10:26; 12:26; 13:14; 14:15; 16:7; 16:7; 16:15; 17:2; 17:3; 22:26; 32:1; 32:12; 32:21; 33:16

Numbers

9:8; 13:18; 13:19; 15:34; 16:11; 22:28; 22:32; 23:3; 23:3; 23:8; 24:5; 24:22

Deuteronomy

29:23

Joshua

15:18; 22:16; 22:16; 22:24

Judges

8:1; 8:1; 8:3; 9:48; 11:12; 13:18; 14:18; 15:11; 16:5; 16:5; 18:3; 18:8; 18:23; 18:24; 18:24; 20:12

1 Samuel

1:8; 6:2; 6:3; 10:11; 10:27; 11:5; 14:38; 19:3; 19:5; 19:17; 19:17; 20:4; 20:8; 20:10; 20:10; 20:32; 21:15; 22:13; 24:10; 26:18; 28:15; 29:3

2 Samuel

2:22; 2:22; 6:20; 13:26; 13:26; 14:5; 14:13; 14:31; 16:9; 16:10; 17:5; 18:22; 18:23; 19:23; 19:29; 19:35; 20:1; 20:19; 21:3; 21:4; 24:3; 24:13

1 Kings

1:16; 3:5; 9:8; 9:8; 9:13; 12:16; 12:16; 12:16; 17:18; 19:9; 21:5; 22:16

2 Kings

1:5; 2:9; 3:13; 4:43; 6:28; 6:33; 7:3; 8:13; 9:18; 9:19; 9:22; 14:10; 18:19

1 Chronicles

15:13; 15:13

2 Chronicles

7:21; 18:15; 25:16; 32:10; 35:21

Ezra

7:23

Nehemiah

2:4; 6:3

Esther

4:5; 5:3; 5:6; 6:3; 7:2; 9:12; 9:26

Job

6:11; 6:11; 6:24; 6:24; 7:17; 7:19; 7:20; 9:2; 9:12; 10:2; 13:13; 13:13; 13:14; 13:23; 15:9; 15:12; 15:12; 15:14; 16:3; 16:6; 16:6; 21:15; 21:17; 21:21; 22:13; 22:13; 22:17; 23:5; 25:4; 26:2; 26:3; 26:14; 30:2; 31:1; 31:1; 34:4; 34:33; 38:6

Psalms

3:2; 4:3; 4:3; 8:2; 8:5; 10:13; 21:2; 22:2; 30:10; 30:10; 35:17; 36:8; 39:5; 39:5; 42:6; 42:10; 43:2; 43:2; 44:24; 44:25; 49:6; 50:16; 56:5; 74:1; 74:9; 74:11; 78:40; 79:5; 79:10; 85:9; 89:47; 89:48; 89:48; 114:5; 115:2; 119:84

Proverbs

9:13; 20:24; 25:8

Ecclesiastes

1:3; 1:9; 1:9; 2:15; 3:15; 3:22; 5:5; 5:10; 5:15; 6:8; 6:10; 6:11; 7:16; 7:17; 7:24; 8:4; 8:7; 10:14; 11:2

Song of Songs

1:7; 2:7; 3:5; 4:10; 5:9; 7:2; 8:4; 8:4

Isaiah

1:5; 1:11; 2:22; 3:15; 3:15; 21:11; 22:1; 22:16; 40:8; 41:22; 45:9; 45:10; 52:5; 52:7

Jeremiah

1:11; 2:5; 2:18; 2:33; 2:36; 6:20; 6:20; 7:17; 8:9; 8:14; 9:11; 15:18; 16:10; 20:18; 22:8; 23:28; 33:24; 40:15

Lamentations

2:13

Ezekiel

8:6; 18:2; 18:2; 21:12

Daniel

1:10; 10:20

Hosea

9:5; 10:3; 14:9

Joel

2:17

Amos

5:18; 7:2; 7:8

Jonah

1:6

Micah

6:5; 6:6; 6:8

Habakkuk

2:1; 2:18; 2:18

Haggai

1:9; 2:3

Zechariah

1:9; 2:6; 5:6; 7:3

Malachi

1:2; 1:6; 1:7; 1:13; 1:13; 2:17; 3:7; 3:8; 3:14

Matthew

8:29

Mark

5:7

John

2:4

H4100

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4100 matches the Hebrew מָה (mâ),
which occurs 750 times in 655 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 14 (Jdg 15:10–1Sa 19:5)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10 - So the men of Judah said, “Why H4100 have you come up against us?” And they said, “We have come up to bind Samson in order to do to him as he did to us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What H4100 then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:5 - And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see where H4100 his great strength lies and [fn]how H4100 we may overpower him that we may bind him to afflict him. Then we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where H4100 your great strength is and [fn]how H4100 you may be bound to afflict you.”

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Then Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have deceived me and told me lies; now please tell me [fn]how H4100 you may be bound.”

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Then Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies; tell me [fn]how H4100 you may be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web [fn][and fasten it with a pin, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”

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Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have deceived me these three times and have not told me where H4100 your great strength is.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - They were near the house of Micah, and they recognized the voice of the young man, the Levite. So they turned aside there and said to him, “Who brought you here? And what H4100 are you doing in this place? And what H4100 do you have here?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:8 - So they came back to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers said to them, “What H4100 do you report?”

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And the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their relatives, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and [fn]household idols and a graven image and a molten image? So now, know what H4100 you should do.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:18 - Now these had entered into Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod and household idols and the molten image. Then the priest said to them, “What H4100 are you doing?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:23 - And they called out to the sons of Dan, who turned [fn]around and said to Micah, “What H4100 is the matter with you, that you were summoned together?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:24 - And he said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away, and what H4100 do I have besides? So how H4100 can you say to me, ‘What H4100 is the matter with you?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:12

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Then the tribes of Israel sent men through the entire [fn]tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What H4100 is this evil that has taken place among you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:3 - And they said, “Why H4100, O Yahweh, God of Israel, has this come about in Israel, so that one tribe should be missing today from Israel?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:7 - “What H4100 shall we do for wives for those who are left? But we have sworn by Yahweh not to give them any of our daughters in marriage.”

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Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:11 - But Naomi said, “Return, my daughters. Why H4100 should you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21 - “I went out full, but Yahweh has caused me to return empty. Why H4100 do you call me Naomi? Yahweh has answered against me, and [fn]the Almighty has brought calamity against me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:8 - Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why H4100 do you weep and why H4100 do you not eat and why H4100 is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:23 - So he said to them, “Why H4100 do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - ‘Why H4100 do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering which I have commanded in My habitation, and honor your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the [fn]choicest of every offering of My people Israel?’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:17 - And he said, “What H4100 is the word that He spoke to you? Please do not hide it from me. May God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the words that He spoke to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:3 - Then the people came into the camp, and the elders of Israel said, “Why H4100 has Yahweh [fn]defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us take to ourselves from Shiloh the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that [fn]it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:6 - Then the Philistines heard the noise of the shout and said, “What H4100 does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” Then they knew that the ark of Yahweh had come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:14 - Then Eli heard the noise of the outcry, and he said, “What H4100 does the noise of this commotion mean?” So the man came hurriedly and told Eli.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:16 - And the man said to Eli, “I am the one who came from the battle line. Indeed, I fled from the battle line today.” And he said, “How H4100 did things go, my son?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 5:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:8 - So they sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them and said, “What H4100 shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” And they said, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath.” And they brought the ark of the God of Israel around.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:2 - And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What H4100 shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Make us know [fn]how H4100 we shall send it to its place.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:3 - So they said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty; but you shall surely return to Him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why H4100 His hand is not turned away from you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:4 - Then they said, “What H4100 shall be the guilt offering which we shall return to Him?” And they said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for one plague was on all of [fn]you and on your lords.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:6 - “Why H4100 then do you [fn]harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh [fn]hardened their hearts? When He had abused them, did they not allow [fn]the people to go, and they went?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:7 - Then Saul said to his young man, “But behold, if we go, what H4100 shall we bring the man? For the bread is gone from our sack, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What H4100 do we have?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:21 - And Saul answered and said, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the [fn]tribe of Benjamin? Why H4100 then do you speak to me in this way?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:2 - “When you go from me today, then you will find two men close to Rachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys which you went to search for have been found. Now behold, your father has [fn]ceased to be concerned about the donkeys and is anxious for you, saying, “What H4100 shall I do about my son?”’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:11 - Now it happened that all who knew him previously saw, and behold, he was prophesying with the prophets, so the people said to one another, “What H4100 has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:15 - And Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what H4100 Samuel said to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:27 - But certain [fn]vile men said, “How H4100 can this one save us?” And they despised him and did not bring him any present. But he kept silent.

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Now behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen, and [fn]he said, “What H4100 is the matter with the people that they weep?” So they recounted to him the words of the men of Jabesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:11 - But Samuel said, “What H4100 have you done?” And Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the appointed days, and that the Philistines were assembling at Michmash,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:38 - And Saul said, “Draw near here, all you [fn]chiefs of the people, and know and see how H4100 this sin has happened today.

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Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what H4100 you have done.” So Jonathan told him and said, “I indeed tasted a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am; I must die!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:14 - But Samuel said, “What H4100 then is this sound of the sheep in my ears and the sound of the oxen which I am hearing?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:19 - “Why H4100 then did you not [fn]obey the voice of Yahweh, but rushed upon the spoil and did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8 - And he stood and called out to the [fn]battle lines of Israel and said to them, “Why H4100 do you come out to arrange yourselves for battle? Am I not the Philistine and you slaves of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.

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Then David spoke to the men who were standing by him, saying, “What H4100 will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should [fn]reproach the battle lines of the living God?”

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Then Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why H4100 have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I myself know your arrogance and the wickedness of your heart, for you have come down in order to see the battle.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:29 - But David said, “What H4100 have I done now? Was it not just a word?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:3 - “And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak with my father about you; what H4100 I [fn]perceive, I will tell you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:5 - “For he took his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh brought about a great salvation for all Israel; you saw it and were glad. Why H4100 then will you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death without a cause?”

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