מָה mâh

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.

Derivation: or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle;

Where it is used

• Job 7:19 Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
• Job 7:20 If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
• Job 7:21 Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
• Job 9:2 “Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
• Job 9:12 If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
• Job 9:29 Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
• Job 10:2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
• Job 10:18 Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
• Job 11:8 They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
• Job 13:13 Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
• Job 13:14 Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?
• Job 13:23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
• Job 13:24 Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
• Job 15:9 What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
• Job 15:12 Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
• Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
• Job 16:3 Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
• Job 16:6 Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
• Job 19:22 Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
• Job 19:28 If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
• Job 21:15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
• Job 21:17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
• Job 21:21 For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
• Job 22:13 Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
• Job 22:17 They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
• Job 23:5 I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.
• Job 25:4 How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• Job 26:2 “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
• Job 26:3 How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
• Job 26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
• Job 26:14 Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
• Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• Job 27:12 Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?
• Job 30:2 What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
• Job 31:1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
• Job 31:2 For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?
• Job 31:14 what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?
• Job 34:4 Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
• Job 34:33 Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed Him? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.
• Job 35:3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
• Job 35:6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
• Job 35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
• Job 37:19 Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
• Job 38:6 On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
• Job 40:4 “Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
• Psalms 2:1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• Psalms 3:1 A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!
• Psalms 4:2 How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah
• Psalms 8:1 For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.
• Psalms 8:4 what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
• Psalms 8:9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
• Psalms 10:1 Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
• Psalms 10:13 Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
• Psalms 11:3 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
• Psalms 21:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, the king rejoices in Your strength. How greatly he exults in Your salvation!
• Psalms 22:1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
• Psalms 30:9 “What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?
• Psalms 31:19 How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!
• Psalms 35:17 How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
• Psalms 36:7 How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!