H4100–מָה–mah

Then Johanan, the son of Kareah, said to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, Let me now go and put Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, to death without anyone's knowledge: why let him take your life so that all the Jews who have come together to you may be sent in f

לָ֧מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;

לָמָה֩ (מָה֩) Mah “why?”

O daughter of Aroer, take your station by the way, on the watch: questioning him who is in flight, and her who has got away safe, say, What has been done?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Why are you lifted up in pride on account of your valleys, your flowing valley, O daughter ever turning away? who puts her faith in her wealth, saying, Who will come against me?

מַה־ mah- “why?”

What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you w

מָֽה־ mah- “what?”מָ֣ה mah “what?”מָ֤ה mah “what?”

What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?

מַה־ mah- “why?”

Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

מֶֽה־ meh- “what?”

Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing me to go far away from my holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things.

מָ֣ההֵ֣ם (מָ֣ה) me. “what”

Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people, said to you, What are you doing?

מָ֖ה mah “what?”

Son of man, what is this saying which you have about the land of Israel, The time is long and every vision comes to nothing?

מָֽה־ mah- “what?”

Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;

מָ֤ה mah “how!”

Say now to this uncontrolled people, Are these things not clear to you? Say to them, See, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took its king and its rulers away with him to Babylon;

מָה־ mah- “what?”

Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

וְלָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

מָ֤ה mah “what?”

Then I said to them, What is this high place where you go to no purpose? And it is named Bamah to this day.

מָ֣ה mah “what?”

And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: se

מָ֖ה mah “what?”

וּמָ֕ה (מָ֕ה) Mah “what?”

And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to us the sense of these things; is it for us you do them?

מָה־ mah- “what?”

Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel?

וְלָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking together about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, saying to one another, Come now, give ear to the word which comes from the Lord.

מָ֣ה mah “what?”

And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us?

מָה־ mah- “what?”

And the captain of the unsexed servants said to Daniel, I am in fear of my lord the king, who has given orders about your food and your drink; what if he sees you looking less happy than the other young men of your generation? then you would have put my

לָמָּה֩ (מָּה֩) Mah “why?”