{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4100",
  "lemma": "מָה",
  "transliteration": "mâh",
  "definition": "properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even…",
  "kjv": "how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing)…",
  "occurrences": 743,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "מָה, rarely מָה־, מַה־, מַה‍ּ, מֶה, מַ‍ּ, מָ—pron.interrog. and indef. what? how? aught",
    "1. interrog. what?",
    "2. Used adverbially",
    "3. Indef. pron.",
    "4. With preps."
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:19",
      "text": "Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 3:13",
      "text": "The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 4:6",
      "text": "The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 4:10",
      "text": "The LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 12:18",
      "text": "Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 12:19",
      "text": "Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 15:2",
      "text": "Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 15:8",
      "text": "He said, “Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:13",
      "text": "The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 20:9",
      "text": "Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=9"
    }
  ],
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