H4100–מָה–mah

He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

מָ֣ה mah “what?”

Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

מֶ֣ה meh “what?”

Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Now, you want to be gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

With whoever you find your gods, he shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.

מָ֥ה mah “what?”

Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

מַה־ mah- “what?”מַ֣ה mah “what?”

Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

מָֽה־ mah- “what?”

He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.

לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

לָ֣מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"

מָ֛ה mah “what?”

A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, "What are you looking for?"

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you:" for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

מַה־ mah- “what?”

He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.

מָ֣ה mah “what?”

It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.

מַה־ mah- “how!”

But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

לָ֖מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is even in my sack." Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"

לָמָ֥ה (מָ֥ה) Mah “why?”

When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?

לָ֛מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

לָ֚מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

מָֽה־ mah- “what?”