Lexicon entry · Hebrew
H4100מָהmah
what?Part of speech: Hebrew Interogative
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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?”
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!”
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?”
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?”
Return, return, O Shulammith! Return, return, and we look upon thee. What do ye see in Shulammith?
מַֽה־ mah- “why?”
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!”
How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights.
מַה־ mah- “how!”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “how!”
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?”
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?”
Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart `is' sick.
מֶ֥ה meh “what?”
`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?”
Cease for you from man, Whose breath `is' in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?
בַמֶּ֥ה (מֶּ֥ה) Meh “how?”
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”
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?”
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?”
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?”
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?”
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?”
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?”
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?”
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?”
-- 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?”
And Hezekiah saith, `What `is' the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'
מָ֣ה mah “what?”
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?”
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?”