# H4100 מָה

מָה (mâh), Strong’s H4100: properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even… KJV: how (long…

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*mâh* — 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)…

Occurs 743 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=19) — 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…
- [Genesis 3:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=13) — The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
- [Genesis 4:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=6) — The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
- [Genesis 4:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=10) — The LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
- [Genesis 12:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=18) — 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?
- [Genesis 12:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=19) — 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…
- [Genesis 15:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=2) — Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of…
- [Genesis 15:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=8) — He said, “Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?”
- [Genesis 18:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=13) — The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’
- [Genesis 20:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=9) — Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have…