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H4100מָהmah
what?Part of speech: Hebrew Interogative
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I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
מֶ֣ה meh “what?”
The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them?
מֶ֖ה meh “what?”
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
מָה֙ mah “what?”
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [supplied: who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?
מָה֙ mah “what?”
What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness [supplied: with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.
מֶ֣ה meh “what?”
What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?
מַה־ mah- “what?”
You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”
Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't leave us.
לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [supplied: brook], as waters that fail?
לָ֣מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”
It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words, and they shall tell you, Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?
מֶה֩ meh “what?”וּמֶ֤ה (מֶ֤ה) Meh “what?”וּמֶ֣ה (מֶ֣ה) Meh “what?”
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”
Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?
מֶ֨ה meh “what?”
Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shall you be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!
מַה־ mah- “how!”
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.
מַה־ mah- “what?”
When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? then shall you tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.
מַה־ mah- “what?”מַה־ mah- “what?”
Thus shall you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken?
מֶה־ meh- “what?”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”
Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered you? and, What has Yahweh spoken?
מֶה־ meh- “what?”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”
Then said Yahweh to me, What see you, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.
מָֽה־ mah- “what?”
Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”
Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?
לָ֧מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”
Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
לָ֚מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”
Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.
מַה־ mah- “why?”
Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
מָֽה־ mah- “what?”
Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
מֶה֩ meh “what?”
But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don't hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said to you:
מַה־ mah- “what?”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”