H4100–מָה–mah

And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?

לָמָ֥ה (מָ֥ה) Mah “why?”

And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.

לָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: why then are ye the last to bring back the king?

וְלָ֧מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries to me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

And it came to pass, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?

לָ֛מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that ate at thy own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more to the king?

וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “what?”

And the king said to him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

לָ֛מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

And Barzillai said to the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

כַּמָּ֗ה (מָּ֗ה) Mah “many?”

I am this day eighty years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing-men and singing-women? why then should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

וְלָמָּה֩ (מָּה֩) Mah “why?”

Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense me with such a reward?

וְלָ֙מָּה֙ (מָּה֙) mah “why?”

And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: why then are ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift?

וְלָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Wherefore David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with what shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?

מָ֥ה mah “what?”וּבַמָּ֣ה (מָּ֣ה) Mah “how?”

And the Gibeonites said to him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.

מָֽה־ mah- “what?”

And Joab said to the king, Now the LORD thy God add to the people, how many soever they may be, a hundred-fold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?

לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come upon thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now consider, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

מָה־ mah- “what?”

And David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.

מֶ֣ה meh “what?”

And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. And the king said, What wouldst thou?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunamite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

וְלָמָה֩ (מָה֩) Mah “why?”

In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

מָ֥ה mah “what?”

And at this house which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?

מֶ֨ה meh “what?”

And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this day.

מָ֚ה mah “what?”

Then Pharaoh said to him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thy own country? And he answered, Nothing: yet, in any wise let me go.

מָה־ mah- “what?”

And he said to them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

מָ֚ה mah “what?”

So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thy own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

מַה־ mah- “what?”