H4100 · מָה
mâh · maw · what?
H4100 (mâh, pronounced maw) is the Hebrew word מָה in Strong’s dictionary: properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?). It appears 749 times in 656 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- מָה (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- mâh
- Pronunciation
- maw
- Derivation
- or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle;
- 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
- Rendered in the KJV
- how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
749 occurrences in 656 verses (706 with English words of their own, 43 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “What” ×179
- “Why” ×158
- “what” ×90
- “How” ×53
- “why” ×23
- “how” ×20
- “and what” ×8
- “Why then” ×5
By book
Genesis 56 · Exodus 30 · Leviticus 1 · Numbers 26 · Deuteronomy 5 · Joshua 13 · Judges 35 · Ruth 2 · 1 Samuel 55 · 2 Samuel 42 · 1 Kings 19 · 2 Kings 23 · 1 Chronicles 7 · 2 Chronicles 18 · Ezra 1 · Nehemiah 7 · Esther 11 · Job 52 · Psalms 57 · Proverbs 13 · Ecclesiastes 25 · Song of Solomon 9 · Isaiah 26 · Jeremiah 43 · Lamentations 4 · Ezekiel 16 · Daniel 3 · Hosea 5 · Joel 3 · Amos 4 · Jonah 5 · Micah 5 · Nahum 1 · Habakkuk 4 · Haggai 2 · Zechariah 17 · Malachi 11
First 30 of 656 verses
- Genesis 2:19
- Genesis 3:13
- Genesis 4:6
- Genesis 4:10
- Genesis 12:18
- Genesis 12:19
- Genesis 15:2
- Genesis 15:8
- Genesis 18:13
- Genesis 20:9
- Genesis 20:10
- Genesis 21:17
- Genesis 21:29
- Genesis 23:15
- Genesis 24:31
- Genesis 25:22
- Genesis 25:32
- Genesis 26:10
- Genesis 27:20
- Genesis 27:37
- Genesis 27:45
- Genesis 27:46
- Genesis 28:17
- Genesis 29:15
- Genesis 29:25
- Genesis 30:31
- Genesis 31:26
- Genesis 31:27
- Genesis 31:30
- Genesis 31:32
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H4100.