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

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Concordance 657 verses

  1. Numbers 21:5 לָמָ֤ה

    and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”

  2. Numbers 22:19 מַה־

    So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”

  3. Numbers 22:28 מֶה־

    Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”

  4. Numbers 22:32 מָ֗ה

    The angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you, because your way is perverse before me.

  5. Numbers 22:37 לָ֥מָּה

    And he said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to richly reward you?”

  6. Numbers 23:3 מַה־

    “Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,

  7. Numbers 23:8 מָ֣הוּמָ֣ה

    How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?

  8. Numbers 23:11 מֶ֥ה

    Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and behold, you have only blessed them!”

  9. Numbers 23:17 מַה־

    So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the princes of Moab. “What did the LORD say?” Balak asked.

  10. Numbers 23:23 מַה־

    For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’

  11. Numbers 24:5 מַה־

    How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!

  12. Numbers 24:22 מָ֖ה

    Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”

  13. Numbers 27:4 לָ֣מָּה

    Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”

  14. Numbers 32:7 וְלָ֣מָּה

    Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?

  15. Deuteronomy 5:25 לָ֣מָּה

    But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.

  16. In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

  17. And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

  18. Deuteronomy 29:24 מֶ֨המֶ֥ה

    So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

  19. He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.

  20. Joshua 4:6 מָ֛ה

    to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

  21. Joshua 4:21 מָ֖ה

    Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’

  22. Joshua 5:14 מָ֥ה

    “Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as Commander of the LORD’s army.” Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence and asked Him, “What does my Lord have to say to His servant?”

  23. Joshua 7:7 לָ֠מָה

    “O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

  24. Joshua 7:8 מָ֣ה

    O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?

  25. Joshua 7:9 וּמַֽה־

    When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

  26. Joshua 7:10 לָ֣מָּה

    But the LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?

  27. Joshua 7:19 מֶ֣ה

    So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

  28. Joshua 7:25 מֶ֣ה

    “Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

  29. Joshua 9:22 לָמָּה֩

    Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by telling us you live far away from us, when in fact you live among us?

  30. Joshua 15:18 מַה־

    One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

  31. Joshua 22:16 מָֽה־

    “This is what the whole congregation of the LORD says: ‘What is this breach of faith you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel against the LORD this day?

  32. Joshua 22:24 מַה־

    But in fact we have done this for fear that in the future your descendants might say to ours, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?

  33. Judges 1:14 מַה־

    One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

  34. Judges 2:2 מַה־

    and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

  35. Judges 5:16 לָ֣מָּה

    Why did you sit among the sheepfolds to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.

  36. Judges 5:17 לָ֥מָּה

    Gilead remained beyond the Jordan. Dan, why did you linger by the ships? Asher stayed at the coast and remained in his harbors.

  37. Judges 6:13 וְלָ֥מָּה

    “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

  38. Judges 6:15 בַּמָּ֥ה

    “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

  39. Judges 7:11 מַה־

    and listen to what they are saying. Then your hands will be strengthened to attack the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outposts where armed men were guarding the camp.

  40. Judges 8:1 מָֽה־

    Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently.

  41. Judges 8:2 מֶה־

    But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?

  42. Judges 8:3 וּמַה־

    God has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.

  43. Judges 9:2 מַה־

    “Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”

  44. Judges 9:48 מָ֤ה

    he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”

  45. Judges 11:12 מַה־

    Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, “What do you have against me that you have come to fight against my land?”

  46. Judges 12:3 וְלָמָ֞ה

    When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”

  47. Judges 13:8 מַֽה־

    Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”

  48. Judges 13:12 מַה־

    Then Manoah asked, “When your words come to pass, what will be the boy’s rule of life and mission?”

  49. Judges 13:18 לָ֥מָּה

    “Why do you ask my name,” said the angel of the LORD, “since it is beyond comprehension?”

  50. Judges 14:18 מַה־וּמֶ֥ה

    Before sunset on the seventh day, the men of the city said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”

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