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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

Renderings

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753 occurrences in 659 verses

With their references and text in Young's Literal Translation.

  1. Song of Songs 1:7

    Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions?

    שַׁלָּמָ֤ה (מָ֤ה) Mah “why?”

  2. Song of Songs 4:10

    How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.

    מַה־ mah- “how!”מַה־ mah- “how!”

  3. Song of Songs 5:8

    I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved -- What do ye tell him? that I `am' sick with love!

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  4. Song of Songs 5:9

    What `is' thy beloved above `any' beloved, O fair among women? What `is' thy beloved above `any' beloved, That thus thou hast adjured us?

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

  5. Song of Songs 6:13

    Return, return, O Shulammith! Return, return, and we look upon thee. What do ye see in Shulammith?

    מַֽה־ mah- “why?”

  6. Song of Songs 7:1

    As the chorus of `Mahanaim.' How beautiful were thy feet with sandals, O daughter of Nadib. The turnings of thy sides `are' as ornaments, Work of the hands of an artificer.

    מַה־ mah- “how!”

  7. Song of Songs 7:6

    How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.

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

  8. Song of Songs 8:4

    I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How ye stir up, And how ye wake the love till she please!

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

  9. Song of Songs 8:8

    We have a little sister, and breasts she hath not, What do we do for our sister, In the day that it is told of her?

    מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

  10. Isaiah 1:5

    Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart `is' sick.

    מֶ֥ה meh “what?”

  11. Isaiah 1:11

    `Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated `with' burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired.

    לָמָּה־ (מָּה) mah- “why?”

  12. Isaiah 2:22

    Cease for you from man, Whose breath `is' in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?

    בַמֶּ֥ה (מֶּ֥ה) Meh “how?”

  13. Isaiah 3:15

    What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:

    מַה־לָּכֶם֙ (מַה) mah “what”

  14. Isaiah 5:4

    What -- to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  15. Isaiah 10:3

    And what do ye at a day of inspection? And at desolation? -- from afar it cometh. Near whom do ye flee for help? And where do ye leave your honour?

    וּמַֽה־ (מַֽה) mah- “what?”

  16. Isaiah 14:32

    And what doth one answer the messengers of a nation? `That Jehovah hath founded Zion, And in it do the poor of His people trust!'

    וּמַֽה־ (מַֽה) mah- “what?”

  17. Isaiah 19:12

    Where `are' they now, thy wise ones? Yea, let them tell to thee, I pray thee, And they know what Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled against Egypt!

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  18. Isaiah 21:11

    The burden of Dumah. Unto me is `one' calling from 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 -- to thee, now, that thou hast gone up, All of thee -- to the roofs?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  20. Isaiah 22:16

    What -- to thee here? And who -- to thee here? That thou hast hewn out to thee here -- a sepulchre? Hewing on high his sepulchre, Graving in a rock a dwelling for himself.

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  21. Isaiah 36:4

    And Rabshakeh saith unto them, `Say ye, I pray you, unto Hezekiah, `Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What `is' this confidence in which thou hast confided?

    מָ֧ה mah “what?”

  22. Isaiah 38:15

    -- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

    מָֽה־ mah- “what?”

  23. Isaiah 38:22

    And Hezekiah saith, `What `is' the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'

    מָ֣ה mah “what?”

  24. Isaiah 39:3

    And Isaiah the prophet cometh in unto king Hezekiah, and saith unto him, `What said these men? and whence come they unto thee?' And Hezekiah saith, `From a land afar off they have come unto me -- from Babylon.'

    מָ֥ה mah “what?”

  25. Isaiah 39:4

    And he saith, `What saw they in thy house?' and Hezekiah saith, `All that `is' in my house they saw; there hath not been a thing that I have not shewed them among my treasures.'

    מָ֥ה mah “what?”