Hebrew · Strong’s H4100
מָה
mâh/maw/
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
Derivation:
or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle;
748
Times used
748
Old Testament
0
New Testament
Verses
Words derived from it
- H4310מִי mîywho? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction wit
- H4069מַדּוּעַ maddûwaʻwhat (is) known?; i.e. (by implication) (adverbially) why?
- H4478מָן mânliterally a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it)
- H4101מָה mâh{properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitel
- H4102מָהַהּ mâhahhproperly, to question or hesitate, i.e. (by implication) to be reluctant
- H1099בְּלִימָה bᵉlîymâh(as indefinitely) nothing whatever
- H4367מַכְנַדְבַי MaknadbayMaknadbai, an Israelite
- H4972מַתְּלָאָה mattᵉlâʼâhwhat a trouble!
- H4078מַדַּי maddaywhat (is) enough, i.e. sufficiently
- H3964מָא mâʼ(as indefinitely) that
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Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain. Verse list from the Strong’s-tagged King James Version.