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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

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753 occurrences in 659 verses

With their references and text in Darby Bible.

  1. Song of Songs 1:7

    Tell me, thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest [supplied: thy flock], Where thou makest it to rest at noon; For why should I be as one veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions?

    שַׁלָּמָ֤ה (מָ֤ה) Mah “why?”

  2. Song of Songs 4:10

    How fair is thy love, my sister, [supplied: my] spouse! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine ointments than all spices!

    מַה־ mah- “how!”מַה־ mah- “how!”

  3. Song of Songs 5:8

    I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, ... What will ye tell him? -- That I am sick of love.

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  4. Song of Songs 5:9

    What is thy beloved more than [supplied: another] beloved, Thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than [supplied: another] beloved, That thou dost so charge us?

    מַה־ mah- “how [is]?”מַה־ mah- “how?”

  5. Song of Songs 6:13

    Return, return, O Shulamite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee. -- What would ye look upon in the Shulamite? -- As it were the dance of two camps.

    מַֽה־ mah- “why?”

  6. Song of Songs 7:1

    How beautiful are thy footsteps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of thy thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.

    מַה־ mah- “how!”

  7. Song of Songs 7:6

    How fair and how pleasant art thou, [supplied: my] love, in delights!

    מַה־ mah- “how!”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “how!”

  8. Song of Songs 8:4

    I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, ... Why should ye stir up, why awake [supplied: my] love, till he please?

    מַה־ mah- “why?”וּֽמַה־ (מַה) mah- “why?”

  9. Song of Songs 8:8

    We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken for? --

    מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

  10. Isaiah 1:5

    Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

    מֶ֥ה meh “what?”

  11. Isaiah 1:11

    To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats I take no pleasure.

    לָמָּה־ (מָּה) mah- “why?”

  12. Isaiah 2:22

    Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?

    בַמֶּ֥ה (מֶּ֥ה) Meh “how?”

  13. Isaiah 3:15

    What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

    מַה־לָּכֶם֙ (מַה) mah “what”

  14. Isaiah 5:4

    What was there yet to do to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? --

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  15. Isaiah 10:3

    And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the sudden destruction [supplied: which] shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help, and where will ye leave your glory?

    וּמַֽה־ (מַֽה) mah- “what?”

  16. Isaiah 14:32

    And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and the afflicted of his people find refuge in it.

    וּמַֽה־ (מַֽה) mah- “what?”

  17. Isaiah 19:12

    Where are they then, thy wise [supplied: men]? Let them now tell thee, and let them make known what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  18. Isaiah 21:11

    The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

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

  19. Isaiah 22:1

    The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  20. Isaiah 22:16

    What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn thee out a sepulchre here, [supplied: as] he that heweth out his sepulchre on high, cutting out in the rock a habitation for himself?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  21. Isaiah 36:4

    And Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this in which thou trustest?

    מָ֧ה mah “what?”

  22. Isaiah 38:15

    What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [supplied: it]. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

    מָֽה־ mah- “what?”

  23. Isaiah 38:22

    And Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up into the house of Jehovah?

    מָ֣ה mah “what?”

  24. Isaiah 39:3

    Then came the prophet Isaiah to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to thee? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country to me, from Babylon.

    מָ֥ה mah “what?”

  25. Isaiah 39:4

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

    מָ֥ה mah “what?”