מָה
mah
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)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 657 verses
- Hosea 6:4 מָ֤המָ֥ה
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim ? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
- Hosea 9:5 מַֽה־
What will you do on the appointed day, on the day of the LORD’s feast?
- Hosea 9:14 מַה־
Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
- Hosea 10:3 מַה־
Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”
- Hosea 14:8 מַה־
O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
- Joel 1:18 מַה־
How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
- Joel 2:17 לָ֚מָּה
Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- Joel 3:4 מָה־
Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.
- Amos 4:13 מַה־
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
- Amos 5:18 לָמָּה־
Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
- Amos 7:8 מָֽה־
“Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:
- Amos 8:2 מָֽה־
“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
- Jonah 1:6 מַה־
The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
- Jonah 1:8 מַה־מָ֣ה
“Tell us now,” they demanded, “who is to blame for this calamity that is upon us? What is your occupation, and where have you come from? What is your country, and who are your people?”
- Jonah 1:10 מַה־
Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
- Jonah 1:11 מַה־
Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”
- Jonah 4:5 מַה־
Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.
- Micah 4:9 לָ֥מָּה
Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?
- Micah 6:3 מֶה־וּמָ֣ה
‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!
- Micah 6:5 מַה־וּמֶה־
My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”
- Micah 6:6 בַּמָּה֙
With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
- Micah 6:8 מַה־וּמָֽה־
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Nahum 1:9 מַה־
Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
- Habakkuk 1:3 לָ֣מָּה
Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
- Habakkuk 1:13 לָ֤מָּה
Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
- Habakkuk 2:1 מַה־וּמָ֥ה
I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.
- Habakkuk 2:18 מָֽה־
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
- Haggai 1:9 מֶ֗ה
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
- Haggai 2:3 וּמָ֨ה
‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not appear to you like nothing in comparison?’
- Zechariah 1:9 מָה־מָה־
“What are these, my lord?” I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.”
- Zechariah 1:19 מָה־
So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he told me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
- Zechariah 1:21 מָ֛ה
“What are these coming to do?” I asked. And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
- Zechariah 2:2 כַּמָּֽה־וְכַמָּ֥ה
“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”
- Zechariah 4:2 מָ֥ה
“What do you see?” he asked. “I see a solid gold lampstand,” I replied, “with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps.
- Zechariah 4:4 מָה־
“What are these, my lord?” I asked the angel who was speaking with me.
- Zechariah 4:5 מָה־
“Do you not know what they are?” replied the angel. “No, my lord,” I answered.
- Zechariah 4:11 מַה־
Then I asked the angel, “What are the two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?”
- Zechariah 4:12 מַה־
And I questioned him further, “What are the two olive branches beside the two gold pipes from which the golden oil pours?”
- Zechariah 4:13 מָה־
“Do you not know what these are?” he inquired. “No, my lord,” I replied.
- Zechariah 5:2 מָ֥ה
“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
- Zechariah 5:5 מָ֖ה
Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.”
- Zechariah 5:6 מַה־
“What is it?” I asked. And he replied, “A measuring basket is going forth.” Then he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”
- Zechariah 6:4 מָה־
So I inquired of the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”
- Zechariah 7:3 כַּמֶּ֥ה
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
- Zechariah 9:17 מַה־וּמַה־
How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.
- Zechariah 13:6 מָ֧ה
If someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest ?’ he will answer, ‘These are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.’
- Malachi 1:2 בַּמָּ֣ה
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
- Malachi 1:6 בַּמֶּ֥ה
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
- Malachi 1:7 בַּמֶּ֣ה
By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You ?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
- Malachi 1:13 מַתְּלָאָ֜ה
You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.