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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

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753 occurrences in 659 verses

With their references and text in World English Bible.

  1. Job 15:14

    What is man, that he should be clean? He who 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 provokes you that you answer?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  3. Job 16:6

    "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  4. Job 19:22

    Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

    לָ֭מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

  5. Job 19:28

    If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' Because 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? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

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

  7. Job 21:17

    "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?

    כַּמָּ֤ה׀ (מָּ֤ה) Mah “often?”

  8. Job 21:21

    For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  9. Job 22:13

    You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  10. Job 22:17

    Who said to God, 'Depart from us;' And, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'

    וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

  11. Job 23:5

    I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would tell me.

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  12. Job 25:4

    How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

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

  13. Job 26:2

    "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

    מֶה־ meh- “how!”

  14. Job 26:3

    How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

    מַה־ mah- “how!”

  15. Job 26:7

    He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing.

    מָֽה׃ Mah “whatever”

  16. Job 26:14

    Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear 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 godless, when he is cut off, When God takes away his life?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  18. Job 27:12

    Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; Why then have you become altogether vain?

    וְלָמָּה־ (מָּה) mah- “why?”

  19. Job 30:2

    Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, Men in whom ripe age has perished?

    לָ֣מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

  20. Job 31:1

    "I made a covenant with my eyes, How then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

    וּמָ֥ה (מָ֥ה) Mah “what?”

  21. Job 31:2

    For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

    וּמֶ֤ה׀ (מֶ֤ה) Meh “what?”

  22. Job 31:14

    What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

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

  23. Job 34:4

    Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  24. Job 34:33

    Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

    וּֽמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

  25. Job 35:3

    That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

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