Hebrew intg · H4101
מָה
mahmaw
what?
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4101is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4101
{properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what}
The King James renders it: how great (mighty), that which, what(-soever), why.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mah is rendered "what?". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:22See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?
Ezra 4:22לְמָה֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- what7
- and whatever2
- how much2
- to why2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָה | mah | what? | Uses752 |
| מָהַר | mahar | to hasten | Uses68 |
| מָהַהּ | mahahh | to delay | Uses9 |
| מָהִיר | mahir | quick | Uses4 |
| מָהַר | mahar | to pay brideprice | Uses2 |
| מָהַל | mahal | to weaken | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מָ֛ה3
- וּמָ֣ה2
- כְּמָ֣ה2
- מָ֥ה2
- לְמָה֙1
- לְמָ֤ה1
- מָ֣ה1
- מָה־1
The grammar of each form
- question word7APi
- preposition + question word4AR/Pi
- conjunction (“and”) + question word2AC/Pi
Ezra
four uses
See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?
- לְמָה֙lemahpreposition + question wordtagged: to why
Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, as well as wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—must be given to them daily without fail.
- וּמָ֣הumahconjunction (“and”) + question wordtagged: and whatever
You and your brothers may do whatever seems best with the rest of the silver and gold, according to the will of your God.
- וּמָ֣הumahconjunction (“and”) + question wordtagged: and whatever
Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven must be done diligently for His house. For why should wrath fall on the realm of the king and his sons?
- לְמָ֤הlemahpreposition + question wordtagged: to why
Daniel
nine uses
“Why is the decree from the king so harsh?” he asked. At this time Arioch explained the situation to Daniel.
- מָ֥הmahquestion wordtagged: what
He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.
- מָ֣הmahquestion wordtagged: what
But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the latter days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay on your bed were these:
- מָ֛הmahquestion wordtagged: what
As you lay on your bed, O king, your thoughts turned to the future, and the Revealer of Mysteries made known to you what will happen.
- מָ֛הmahquestion wordtagged: what
- מָה־mah-question wordtagged: what
And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
- מָ֛הmahquestion wordtagged: what
How great are His signs, how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; His dominion endures from generation to generation.
- כְּמָ֣הkemahpreposition + question wordtagged: how much
- כְּמָ֣הkemahpreposition + question wordtagged: how much
All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- מָ֥הmahquestion wordtagged: what
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.