Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H4100: מָה (mâh) Definition

Strong's number
H4100
Lemma
מָה
Transliteration
mâh
Pronunciation
maw
Strong's definition
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 how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why. or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle;

652 instances of the word מָה mâh (H4100)


  • 1 Samuel 21:3 - Now therefore what is in mine hand me five loaves of bread give in mine hand or what there is present

  • 1 Samuel 21:14 - Then said Achish unto his servants Lo ye see the man is mad wherefore then have ye brought

  • 1 Samuel 22:3 - And David thence to Mizpeh of Moab and he said unto the king of Moab I pray thee come forth Let my father and my mother and be with you till I know will do what God

  • 1 Samuel 22:13 - said And Saul unto him Why have ye conspired against me thou and the son of Jesse in that thou hast given him bread and a sword and hast enquired of God for him that he should rise against me to lie in wait as at this day

  • 1 Samuel 24:9 - said And David to Saul Wherefore hearest words thou men's said And David seeketh thy hurt

  • 1 Samuel 25:17 - Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do is determined for evil against our master and against all his household for he is such a son of Belial that a man cannot speak

  • 1 Samuel 26:15 - said And David to Abner Art not thou a valiant man and who is like to thee in Israel wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord

  • 1 Samuel 26:18 - And he said Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant for what have I done is in mine hand or what evil

  • 1 Samuel 27:5 - said And David unto Achish If I have now found grace in thine eyes let them give me a place in some city in the country dwell dwell there for why should thy servant city in the royal

  • 1 Samuel 28:9 - said And the woman unto him Behold thou knowest hath done what Saul how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life to cause me to die

  • 1 Samuel 28:12 - saw And when the woman Samuel she cried voice with a loud saying And when the woman me for thou art Saul saying Why hast thou deceived me for thou art Saul

  • 1 Samuel 28:13 - said And the king unto her Be not afraid I saw said thou And the woman unto Saul gods I saw ascending out of the earth

  • 1 Samuel 28:14 - And he said unto her What form And he said man An old cometh up and he is covered with a mantle perceived And Saul that it was Samuel and he stooped with his face to the ground and bowed

  • 1 Samuel 28:15 - answered And Samuel And Saul Why hast thou disquieted me to bring me up answered And Saul distressed I am sore for the Philistines make war against me and God is departed from me and answereth me no more neither by prophets nor by dreams therefore I have called thee that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do

  • 1 Samuel 28:16 - Then said Samuel Wherefore then dost thou ask of me seeing the LORD is departed from thee and is become thine enemy

  • 1 Samuel 29:3 - Then said the princes of the Philistines What do these Hebrews Then said here And Achish the princes of the Philistines Is not this David the servant of Saul the king of Israel in him since or these years and I have found no fault in him since he fell in him since

  • 1 Samuel 29:4 - were wroth And the princes of the Philistines said And the princes of the Philistines return this fellow return to his place which thou hast appointed him and let him not go down lest in the battle he be an adversary lest in the battle to us for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master should it not be with the heads of these men

  • 1 Samuel 29:8 - said And David unto Achish But what have I done and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee so long as that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king

  • 2 Chronicles 1:7 - In that night appear did God unto Solomon and said unto him Ask what I shall give

  • 2 Chronicles 7:21 - And this house which is high to every one that passeth shall be an astonishment by it so that he shall say done Why hath the LORD thus unto this land And this house