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מָה (mah) means “what?” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מָה Hebrew · H4100 752 tagged occurrences in 658 verses

Pronunciation guide: maw Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4100

מָה · mah · what?

interr pron 1) what, how, of what kind 1a) (interrogative) 1a1) what? 1a2) of what kind 1a3) what? (rhetorical) 1a4) whatsoever, whatever, what 1b) (adverb) 1b1) how, how now 1b2) why 1b3) how! (exclamation) 1c) (with prep) 1c1) wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means? 1c2) because of what? 1c3) the like of what? 1c3a) how much?, how many?, how often? 1c3b) for how long? 1c4) for what reason?, why?, to what purpose? 1c5) until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore? indef pron 2) anything, aught, what may

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses

KJV glosses: how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.

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How translators render H4100

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
what 293
why 183
how 78
and what 14
what is 10
and how 6
so why 5
why then 5
how many 4
whatever 4
and 3
and why 3
but what 3
but why 3
for what 3
then what 3
to what 3
who 3
by what means 2
for why 2
how often 2
no matter what 2
or what 2
the source 2
what good 2
what is left 2
what is the matter 2
what right 2
what use 2
what will you gain 2
and because of all 1
and experienced 1
and what is 1
and whatever 1
and whose speech 1
anything 1
but how 1
do i have 1
enough 1
for how then 1
for what is 1
for who 1
he asked what 1
how could 1
how long 1
how much 1
how then 1
if anything 1
is much 1
let us 1
many 1
now what is 1
of what 1
oh how 1
on what 1
one 1
or 1
so how 1
so what good 1
the first time 1
the source of 1
this will last 1
vvv 1
what a nuisance 1
what about 1
what better way 1
what else 1
what exists 1
what gain comes 1
what have we to do 1
what is that 1
what is the issue between you and me 1
what is wrong 1
what it was 1
what may 1
what more 1
what shall i say 1
what then 1
what troubles 1
what was troubling him 1
what will be 1
why was it 1
will you never 1
with anything 1
with what 1
yet what 1
you what 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
what 4
how 3
wherefore 3
but howsoever 1
for 1
for thee what thing 1
how long 1
nothing 1
of thee and what 1
thee from thence why 1
to what 1
to what end 1
unto him how 1
unto him why hast thou 1
what good 1
whereby 1
wherein 1
wherewith 1
why 1
yea whereto 1

Verses containing H4100

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  1. Song of Solomon 4:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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.

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  2. Song of Solomon 5:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  3. Song of Solomon 5:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

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

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  4. Song of Solomon 6:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?

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    Source alternate reference: 7.1

  5. Song of Solomon 7:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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    Source alternate reference: 7.2

  6. Song of Solomon 7:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences

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

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    Source alternate reference: 7.7

  7. Song of Solomon 8:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences

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

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  8. Song of Solomon 8:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?

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  9. Isaiah 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  10. Isaiah 1:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.

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  11. Isaiah 2:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  12. Isaiah 3:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  13. Isaiah 5:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  14. Isaiah 10:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?

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  15. Isaiah 14:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  16. Isaiah 19:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  17. Isaiah 21:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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?”

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  18. Isaiah 22:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  19. Isaiah 22:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?

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  20. Isaiah 36:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?

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  21. Isaiah 38:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  22. Isaiah 38:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  23. Isaiah 39:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  24. Isaiah 39:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.”

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  25. Isaiah 40:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  26. Isaiah 40:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  27. Isaiah 40:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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”?

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  28. Isaiah 41:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.

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  29. Isaiah 45:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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’?

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  30. Isaiah 45:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

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

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  31. Isaiah 52:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.

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  32. Isaiah 52:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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!”

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  33. Isaiah 55:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  34. Isaiah 58:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.

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  35. Isaiah 63:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  36. Jeremiah 1:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  37. Jeremiah 1:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  38. Jeremiah 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  39. Jeremiah 2:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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?

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  40. Jeremiah 2:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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,

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  41. Jeremiah 2:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  42. Jeremiah 2:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  43. Jeremiah 2:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  44. Jeremiah 4:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  45. Jeremiah 5:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  46. Jeremiah 5:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’”

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  47. Jeremiah 5:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?

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  48. Jeremiah 6:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  49. Jeremiah 7:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  50. Jeremiah 8:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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