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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. Judges 15:10

    The men of Judah said, Why are you come up against us? They said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us.

    לָמָ֖ה (מָ֖ה) Mah “why?”

  2. Judges 15:11

    Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

    וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

  3. Judges 16:5

    The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will each give you of us eleven hundred [supplied: pieces] of silver.

    בַּמֶּה֙ (מֶּה֙) Meh “how?”וּבַמֶּה֙ (מֶּה֙) Meh “how?”

  4. Judges 16:6

    Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, Please, in which your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.

    בַּמֶּ֖ה (מֶּ֖ה) Meh “how?”וּבַמֶּ֥ה (מֶּ֥ה) Meh “how?”

  5. Judges 16:10

    Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, Please, with which you might be bound.

    בַּמֶּ֖ה (מֶּ֖ה) Meh “how?”

  6. Judges 16:13

    Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto you have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me with which you might be bound. He said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.

    בַּמֶּ֖ה (מֶּ֖ה) Meh “how?”

  7. Judges 16:15

    She said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, and have not told me in which your great strength lies.

    בַּמֶּ֖ה (מֶּ֖ה) Meh “how?”

  8. Judges 18:3

    When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, Who brought you here? and what do you in this place? and what have you here?

    וּמָֽה־ (מָֽה) mah- “what?”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

  9. Judges 18:8

    They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, What [supplied: say] you?

    מָ֥ה mah “what?”

  10. Judges 18:14

    Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.

    מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

  11. Judges 18:18

    When these went into Micah's house, and fetched the engraved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, What do you?

    מָ֥ה mah “what?”

  12. Judges 18:23

    They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, What ails you, that you come with such a company?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  13. Judges 18:24

    He said, you have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say you to me, What ails you?

    וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “why?”מַה־ mah- “what?”

  14. Judges 20:12

    The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is happen among you?

    מָ֚ה mah “what?”

  15. Judges 21:3

    They said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?

    לָמָ֗ה (מָ֗ה) Mah “why?”

  16. Judges 21:7

    How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  17. Judges 21:16

    Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

    מַה־ mah- “what?”

  18. Ruth 1:11

    Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will you go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

    לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

  19. Ruth 1:21

    I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, seeing Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"

    לָ֣מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

  20. 1 Samuel 1:8

    Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons?

    לָ֣מֶה (מֶה) meh “why?”וְלָ֙מֶה֙ (מֶה֙) meh “why?”וְלָ֖מֶה (מֶה) meh “why?”

  21. 1 Samuel 2:23

    He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

    לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

  22. 1 Samuel 2:29

    Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [supplied: my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?

    לָ֣מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

  23. 1 Samuel 3:17

    He said, "What is the thing that [supplied: Yahweh] has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you."

    מָ֤ה mah “what?”

  24. 1 Samuel 4:3

    When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.

    לָ֣מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

  25. 1 Samuel 4:6

    When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What means the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? They understood that the ark of Yahweh was come into the camp.

    מֶ֠ה meh “what?”