H4100–מָה–mah

Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

שַׁלָּמָ֤ה (מָ֤ה) Mah “why?”

How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

מַה־ mah- “how!”מַה־ mah- “how!”

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

מַה־ mah- “what?”

What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?

מַה־ mah- “how [is]?”מַה־ mah- “how?”

Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.

מַֽה־ mah- “why?”

How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman:

מַה־ mah- “how!”

How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

מַה־ mah- “how!”וּמַה־ (מַה) mah- “how!”

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

מַה־ mah- “why?”וּֽמַה־ (מַה) mah- “why?”

We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?

מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

מֶ֥ה meh “what?”

What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

לָמָּה־ (מָּה) mah- “why?”

Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

בַמֶּ֥ה (מֶּ֥ה) Meh “how?”

By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

מַה־לָּכֶם֙ (מַה) mah “what”

Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?

וּמַֽה־ (מַֽה) mah- “what?”

What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.

וּמַֽה־ (מַֽה) mah- “what?”

Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.

מַה־ mah- “what?”

The word about Edom. A voice comes to me from Seir, Watchman, how far gone is the night? how far gone is the night?

מַה־ mah- “what?”מַה־ mah- “what?”

The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?

מָ֧ה mah “what?”

What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

מָֽה־ mah- “what?”

And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?

מָ֣ה mah “what?”

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say, and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.

מָ֥ה mah “what?”

And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.

מָ֥ה mah “what?”