H4100 מָה
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 26 KJV occurrences
מָה
mâh · maw
Definition
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
KJV Renderings
how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
Derivation / Etymology
or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 26)
- Genesis 4:10And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
- Genesis 20:10And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
- Genesis 33:15And 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.
- Joshua 7:25And 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.
- 1 Samuel 19:3And 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.
- Job 7:19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
- Proverbs 9:13¶ A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
- Lamentations 2:13What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?