מָה

mah

Hebrew H4100 Interrogative 751 occurrences in 657 verses
מָה what?

interr pron

1. what, how, of what kind

a. (interrogative)

1. what?

2. of what kind

3. what? (rhetorical)

4. whatsoever, whatever, what

b. (adverb)

1. how, how now

2. why

3. how! (exclamation)

c. (with prep)

1. wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means?

2. because of what?

3. the like of what?

a. how much?, how many?, how often?

b. for how long?

4. for what reason?, why?, to what purpose?

5. until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore?

indef pron

2. anything, aught, what may

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 657 verses

  1. Song of Solomon 4:10 מַה־מַה־

    How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.

  2. O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.

  3. Song of Solomon 5:9 מַה־מַה־

    How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?

  4. Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you. Why do you look at the Shulammite, as on the dance of Mahanaim ?

  5. How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O daughter of the prince! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the handiwork of a master.

  6. Song of Solomon 7:6 מַה־וּמַה־

    How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!

  7. Song of Solomon 8:4 מַה־וּֽמַה־

    O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

  8. We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?

  9. Isaiah 1:5 מֶ֥ה

    Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

  10. Isaiah 1:11 לָמָּה־

    “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

  11. Isaiah 2:22 בַמֶּ֥ה

    Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

  12. Isaiah 3:15 מַלָּכֶם

    Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

  13. Isaiah 5:4 מַה־

    What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?

  14. Isaiah 10:3 וּמַֽה־

    What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

  15. Isaiah 14:32 וּמַֽה־

    What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

  16. Isaiah 19:12 מַה־

    Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.

  17. Isaiah 21:11 מַה־מַה־

    This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

  18. Isaiah 22:1 מַה־

    This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,

  19. Isaiah 22:16 מַה־

    What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

  20. Isaiah 36:4 מָ֧ה

    The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?

  21. Isaiah 38:15 מָֽה־

    What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

  22. Isaiah 38:22 מָ֣ה

    And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”

  23. Isaiah 39:3 מָ֥ה

    Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came to me from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”

  24. Isaiah 39:4 מָ֥ה

    “What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”

  25. Isaiah 40:6 מָ֣ה

    A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

  26. Isaiah 40:18 וּמַה־

    To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

  27. Isaiah 40:27 לָ֤מָּה

    Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

  28. Isaiah 41:22 מָ֣ה

    “Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming.

  29. Isaiah 45:9 מַֽה־

    Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

  30. Isaiah 45:10 מַה־מַה־

    Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”

  31. Isaiah 52:7 מַה־

    How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

  32. Isaiah 55:2 לָ֤מָּה

    Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

  33. Isaiah 58:3 לָ֤מָּה

    “Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

  34. Isaiah 63:17 לָ֣מָּה

    Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

  35. Jeremiah 1:11 מָה־

    And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.

  36. Jeremiah 1:13 מָ֥ה

    Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.”

  37. Jeremiah 2:5 מַה־

    This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?

  38. Jeremiah 2:18 מַה־וּמַה־

    Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile ? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates ?

  39. Jeremiah 2:23 מֶ֣ה

    “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

  40. Jeremiah 2:29 לָ֥מָּה

    Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

  41. Jeremiah 2:33 מַה־

    How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

  42. Jeremiah 2:36 מַה־

    How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.

  43. Jeremiah 4:30 מַֽה־

    And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

  44. Jeremiah 5:15 מַה־

    Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.

  45. Jeremiah 5:19 מֶ֗ה

    And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”

  46. Jeremiah 5:31 וּמַֽה־

    The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

  47. Jeremiah 6:20 לָמָּה־

    What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”

  48. Jeremiah 7:17 מָ֛ה

    Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  49. Jeremiah 8:6 מֶ֣ה

    I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.

  50. Jeremiah 8:9 מֶ֖ה

    The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

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