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Lexicon entry · Hebrew

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 King James Version.

  1. Job 15:14

    What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

    מָֽה־ mah- “what?”

  2. Job 16:3

    Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  3. Job 16:6

    Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  4. Job 19:22

    Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

    לָ֭מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

  5. Job 19:28

    But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  6. Job 21:15

    What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

  7. Job 21:17

    How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

    כַּמָּ֤ה׀ (מָּ֤ה) Mah “often?”

  8. Job 21:21

    For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  9. Job 22:13

    And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  10. Job 22:17

    Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

    וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

  11. Job 23:5

    I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  12. Job 25:4

    How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

    וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

  13. Job 26:2

    How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

    מֶה־ meh- “how!”

  14. Job 26:3

    How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

    מַה־ mah- “how!”

  15. Job 26:7

    He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

    מָֽה׃ Mah “whatever”

  16. Job 26:14

    Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

    וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what!”

  17. Job 27:8

    For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  18. Job 27:12

    Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

    וְלָמָּה־ (מָּה) mah- “why?”

  19. Job 30:2

    Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

    לָ֣מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

  20. Job 31:1

    I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

    וּמָ֥ה (מָ֥ה) Mah “what?”

  21. Job 31:2

    For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

    וּמֶ֤ה׀ (מֶ֤ה) Meh “what?”

  22. Job 31:14

    What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

    וּמָ֣ה (מָ֣ה) Mah “what?”מָ֣ה mah “what?”

  23. Job 34:4

    Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  24. Job 34:33

    Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

    וּֽמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

  25. Job 35:3

    For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”מָֽה־ mah- “what?”