H4100–מָה–mah

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, and did rejoice; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?

וְלָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped? Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I kill you?

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”לָמָ֥ה (מָ֥ה) Mah “why?”

David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity?" and "What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"

מֶ֤ה meh “what?”מֶֽה־ meh- “what?”וּמֶֽה־ (מֶֽה) meh- “what?”

Then said Jonathan to David, Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.

מַה־ mah- “whatever”

Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?

לָמָּה־ (מָּה) mah- “why?”

Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me if perchance your father answer you roughly?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”מֶ֥ה meh “what?”

Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Then said Achish to his servants, Look, you see the man is mad; why then have you brought him to me?

לָ֛מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Please let my father and my mother come forth, [supplied: and be] with you, until I know what God will do for me.

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

לָ֚מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

David said to Saul, Why listen you to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your hurt?

לָ֧מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house: for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him.

מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

David said to Abner, Aren't you a [supplied: valiant] man? and who is like you in Israel? why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king your lord.

וְלָ֙מָּה֙ (מָּה֙) mah “why?”

He said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”מֶ֣ה meh “what?”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?

וְלָ֨מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

The woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: why then lay you a snare for my life, to cause me to die?

וְלָמָ֥ה (מָ֥ה) Mah “why?”

When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived me? for you are Saul.

לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

The king said to her, Don't be afraid: for what do you see? The woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.

מָ֣ה mah “what?”

He said to her, What form is he of? She said, An old man comes up; and he is covered with a robe. Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance.

מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up? Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.

לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”מָ֥ה mah “what?”

Samuel said, Why then do you ask of me, seeing Yahweh is departed from you, and is become your adversary?

וְלָ֖מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [supplied: do] these Hebrews [supplied: here]? Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or [supplied: rather] these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away [supplied: to me] to this day?

מָ֖ה mah “what?”

But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us: for with what should this [supplied: fellow] reconcile himself to his lord? should it not be with the heads of these men?

וּבַמֶּ֗ה (מֶּ֗ה) Meh “how?”

David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

מֶ֤ה meh “what?”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”