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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 World English Bible.

  1. Song of Songs 1:7

    Tell me, you whom my soul loves, Where you graze your flock, Where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled Beside the flocks of your companions? Lover

    שַׁלָּמָ֤ה (מָ֤ה) Mah “why?”

  2. Song of Songs 4:10

    How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all manner of spices!

    מַה־ mah- “how!”מַה־ mah- “how!”

  3. Song of Songs 5:8

    I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  4. Song of Songs 5:9

    How is your beloved better than another beloved, You fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, That you do so adjure us? Beloved

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

  5. Song of Songs 6:13

    Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, As at the dance of Mahanaim?

    מַֽה־ mah- “why?”

  6. Song of Songs 7:1

    How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince's daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skillful workman.

    מַה־ mah- “how!”

  7. Song of Songs 7:6

    How beautiful and how pleasant are you, Love, for delights!

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

  8. Song of Songs 8:4

    I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, That you not stir up, nor awaken love, Until it so desires. Friends

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

  9. Song of Songs 8:8

    We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister In the day when she is to be spoken for?

    מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

  10. Isaiah 1:5

    Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint.

    מֶ֥ה meh “what?”

  11. Isaiah 1:11

    "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, And the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs, Or of male goats.

    לָמָּה־ (מָּה) mah- “why?”

  12. Isaiah 2:22

    Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?

    בַמֶּ֥ה (מֶּ֥ה) Meh “how?”

  13. Isaiah 3:15

    What do you mean that you crush my people, And grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

    מַה־לָּכֶם֙ (מַה) mah “what”

  14. Isaiah 5:4

    What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  15. Isaiah 10:3

    What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?

    וּמַֽה־ (מַֽה) mah- “what?”

  16. Isaiah 14:32

    What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.

    וּמַֽה־ (מַֽה) mah- “what?”

  17. Isaiah 19:12

    Where then are your wise men? and let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Hosts has purposed concerning Egypt.

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  18. Isaiah 21:11

    The burden of Dumah. One calls 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 ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  20. Isaiah 22:16

    "What are you doing here? and who has you here, that you have hewed out a tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  21. Isaiah 36:4

    Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which you trust?

    מָ֧ה mah “what?”

  22. Isaiah 38:15

    What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

    מָֽה־ mah- “what?”

  23. Isaiah 38:22

    Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh?

    מָ֣ה mah “what?”

  24. Isaiah 39:3

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

    מָ֥ה mah “what?”

  25. Isaiah 39:4

    Then said he, What have they seen in your house? 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?”