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The Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon

 Strong's Number:  4100 encodedOriginalWord
Original WordWord Origin
 מה  a primitive particle
Transliterated WordPhonetic Spelling
 mah maw
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Parts of SpeechTWOT
 Interrogative, Pronoun 1149
 Definition
  what, how, of what kind
  1. (interrogative)
    1. what?
    2. of what kind
    3. what? (rhetorical)
    4. whatsoever, whatever, what
  2. (adverb)
    1. how, how now
    2. why
    3. how! (exclamation)
  3. (with prep)
    1. wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means?
    2. because of what?
    3. the like of what?
    4. how much?, how many?, how often?
    5. for how long?
    6. for what reason?, why?, to what purpose?
    7. until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore? indef pron
    8. anything, aught, what may
 Translated Words
 KJV (27) - how, ; how long, ; how oft, ; to what end, 27; what, ; whereby, ; wherein, ; why, ;

NAS (441) - anything, 2; how, 1; how long, 2; how many, 2; how often, 2; if, 1; many, 1; nothing, 1; reason, 2; what, 405; whatever, 2; where, 1; which, 3; who, 2; why, 14;

 Verse Count
KJVNAS
 
Genesis8
Numbers1
Joshua1
Judges2
1 Samuel2
2 Samuel2
Job2
Psalms1
Proverbs1
Song of Solomon1
Isaiah1
Jeremiah1
Lamentations1
Amos1
Zechariah1
Malachi1
 
Genesis56
Exodus30
Leviticus1
Numbers27
Deuteronomy5
Joshua13
Judges34
Ruth2
1 Samuel55
2 Samuel42
1 Kings18
2 Kings23
1 Chronicles6
2 Chronicles17
Ezra1
Nehemiah7
Esther11
Job50
Psalms56
Proverbs13
Ecclesiastes24
Song of Solomon8
Isaiah27
Jeremiah43
Lamentations4
Ezekiel16
Daniel3
Hosea5
Joel3
Amos4
Jonah5
Micah5
Nahum1
Habakkuk4
Haggai2
Zechariah17
Malachi11
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Abbreviations Legend:
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament

Copyright Statement
The Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon is Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Lexicon; this is keyed to the "Theological Word Book of the Old Testament." These files are considered public domain.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries. Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. http://www.lockman.org/.

Bibliography Information
Brown, Driver, Briggs and Gesenius. "Hebrew Lexicon entry for Mah". "The Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon".
<http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/heb/view.cgi?number=4100>.  

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