H4100Interrogative752 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
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- Genesis 2:19מַה
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
- 1 Samuel 1:8לָמֶה
“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
- 2 Samuel 1:4מֶה
“What was the outcome?” David asked. “Please tell me.” “The troops fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”
- Job 3:11לָמָּה
Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- Psalm 2:1לָמָּה
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Jeremiah 1:11מָה
And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.