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H4100מָהmah

what?Part of speech: Hebrew Interogative

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Occurrences by book

  1. 63
  2. 33
  3. 1
  4. 30
  5. 6
  6. 13
  7. 41
  8. 2
  9. 68
  10. 45
  11. 19
  12. 24
  13. 8
  14. 18
  15. 1
  16. 7
  17. 18
  18. 63
  19. 66
  20. 16
  21. 28
  22. 13
  23. 29
  24. 50
  25. 6
  26. 16
  27. 3
  28. 6
  29. 3
  30. 4
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. 6
  33. 8
  34. 1
  35. 5
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. 2
  38. 20
  39. 11

Renderings

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753 occurrences in 659 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. 2 Kings 9:18

    So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said: 'Thus saith the king: Is it peace?' And Jehu said: 'What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.' And the watchman told, saying: 'The messenger came to them, but he cometh not back.'

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  2. 2 Kings 9:19

    Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said: 'Thus saith the king: Is it peace?' And Jehu answered: `What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.'

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  3. 2 Kings 9:22

    And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said: 'Is it peace, Jehu?' And he answered: 'What peace, so long as the harlotries of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?'

    מָ֣ה mah “what?”

  4. 2 Kings 14:10

    Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and will thy heart lift thee up? glory therein, and remain at home; for why shouldest thou meddle with evil, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

    וְלָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

  5. 2 Kings 18:19

    And Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Say ye now to Hezekiah: Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

    מָ֧ה mah “what?”

  6. 2 Kings 20:8

    And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah: 'What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up unto the house of the LORD the third day?'

    מָ֣ה mah “what?”

  7. 2 Kings 20:14

    Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him: 'What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?' And Hezekiah said: `They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.'

    מָ֥ה mah “what?”

  8. 2 Kings 20:15

    And he said: 'What have they seen in thy house?' And Hezekiah answered: 'All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.'

    מָ֥ה mah “what?”

  9. 2 Kings 23:17

    Then he said: 'What monument is that which I see' And the men of the city told him: 'It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.'

    מָ֚ה mah “what?”

  10. 1 Chronicles 12:33

    And of the children of Issachar, men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  11. 1 Chronicles 15:13

    For because ye bore it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought Him not according to the ordinance.'

    לְמַבָּרִ֥אשׁוֹנָ֖ה (מַ) ma. “what?”

  12. 1 Chronicles 17:6

    In all places wherein I have walked among all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people, saying: Why have ye not built Me a house of cedar?

    לָ֛מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

  13. 1 Chronicles 17:18

    What can David say yet more unto Thee concerning the honour which is done to Thy servant? for Thou knowest Thy servant.

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  14. 1 Chronicles 21:3

    And Joab said: 'The LORD make His people a hundred times so many more as they are; but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?'

    לָ֣מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”לָ֛מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

  15. 1 Chronicles 21:12

    either three years of famine; or three months to be swept away before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all t

    מָֽה־ mah- “what?”

  16. 1 Chronicles 21:17

    And David said unto God: 'Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let Thy hand, I pray Thee, O LORD my God, be against me, and against my father's h

    מֶ֣ה meh “what?”

  17. 2 Chronicles 1:7

    In that night did God, appear unto Solomon, and said unto him: 'Ask what I shall give thee.'

    מָ֥ה mah “what?”

  18. 2 Chronicles 7:21

    And this house, which is so high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall say: Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

    בַּמֶּ֨ה (מֶּ֨ה) Meh “how?”

  19. 2 Chronicles 10:9

    And he said unto them: 'What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying: Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter?'

    מָ֚ה mah “what?”

  20. 2 Chronicles 10:16

    And when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying: 'What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to thine own house, David.' S

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  21. 2 Chronicles 18:15

    And the king said to him: 'How many times shall I adjure thee that thou speak unto me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD.'

    כַּמֶּ֥ה (מֶּ֥ה) Meh “many?”

  22. 2 Chronicles 18:20

    And there came forth the spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said: I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him: Wherewith?

    בַּמָּֽה׃ (מָּֽה) Mah “how?”

  23. 2 Chronicles 19:6

    and said to the judges: 'Consider what ye do; for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD; and He is with you in giving judgment.

    מָֽה־ mah- “what?”

  24. 2 Chronicles 20:12

    O our God, wilt Thou not execute judgment on them? for we have no might against this great multitude that cometh against us; neither know we what to do; but our eyes are upon Thee.'

    מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

  25. 2 Chronicles 24:20

    And the spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said unto them: 'Thus saith God: Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, He hath

    לָמָה֩ (מָה֩) Mah “why?”