H4100–מָה–mah

for he put his life in hand, and smote the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou didst see [ergänzt: it], and didst rejoice; why then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, in slaying David without cause?

וְלָ֤מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

Then Saul said to Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal said to Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I slay thee?

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

And David fled from Naioth by Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity, and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeks my life?

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

And Jonathan said to David, What thy soul may say, I will even do it for thee.

מַה־ mah- “whatever”

Deal kindly then with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of Jehovah with thee; but if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

לָמָּה־ (מָּה) mah- “why?”

Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?

מַה־ mah- “what?”

And 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?”

And now what is under thy hand? give me five loaves in my hand, or what may be found.

מַה־ mah- “what?”

And Achish said to his servants, Behold, ye see the man is mad: why did ye bring him to me?

לָ֛מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

And David went thence to Mizpeh in Moab, and said to the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth amongst you, till I know what God will do for me.

מַה־ mah- “what?”

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

לָ֚מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

And David said to Saul, Why dost thou listen to words of men, saying, Behold, David seeks thy hurt?

לָ֧מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

And now know and consider what thou wilt do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household; and he is such a son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.

מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

And David said to Abner, Art not thou a man? and who is like to thee in Israel? and why hast thou not guarded thy lord the king? for one of the people came in to destroy the king thy lord.

וְלָ֙מָּה֙ (מָּה֙) mah “why?”

And he said, Why does my lord thus 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?”

And David said to Achish, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some country-town, that I may abide there; for why should thy servant abide in the royal city with thee?

וְלָ֨מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

And the woman said to him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul has done, how he has cut off the necromancers and the soothsayers out of the land; and why layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?

וְלָמָ֥ה (מָ֥ה) Mah “why?”

And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? Even thou art Saul.

לָ֥מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

And the king said to her, Be not afraid; but what didst thou see? And the woman said to Saul, I saw a god ascending out of the earth.

מָ֣ה mah “what?”

And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, An old man comes up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.

מַֽה־ mah- “what?”

And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul said, 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 thee, that thou mayest make known to me what I shall do.

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

And Samuel said, Why then dost thou inquire of me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

וְלָ֖מָּה (מָּה) mah “why?”

And the princes of the Philistines said, What are these Hebrews? And Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or these years, and I have found nothing in him since the day of his falling away [ergänzt: to me] to this day?

מָ֖ה mah “what?”

But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go again to his place where thou hast appointed him, that he go not down with us to the battle, that in the battle he be not an adversary to us; for wherewith should this [ergänzt: fellow] reconcile himself to his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?

וּבַמֶּ֗ה (מֶּ֗ה) Meh “how?”

And David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee to this day, that I should not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

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