מָה mâh

Hebrew · Strong's H4100 · pronounced maw · used 753 times in 659 verses

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;

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Where it is used

Psalms 39:4 “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
Psalms 39:7 And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
Psalms 42:5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
Psalms 42:9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
Psalms 42:11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Psalms 43:2 For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
Psalms 43:5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Psalms 44:23 Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
Psalms 44:24 Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
Psalms 49:5 Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?
Psalms 50:16 To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
Psalms 52:1 For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
Psalms 56:4 In God, whose word I praise—in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Psalms 56:11 in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Psalms 66:3 Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
Psalms 68:16 Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
Psalms 74:1 A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
Psalms 74:9 There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
Psalms 74:11 Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
Psalms 78:40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
Psalms 79:5 How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 79:10 Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
Psalms 80:12 Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
Psalms 84:1 For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!
Psalms 85:8 I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.
Psalms 88:14 Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
Psalms 89:46 How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
Psalms 89:47 Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
Psalms 92:5 How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
Psalms 104:24 How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
Psalms 114:5 Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
Psalms 115:2 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Psalms 116:12 How can I repay the LORD for all His goodness to me?
Psalms 118:6 The LORD is on my side; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Psalms 119:9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
Psalms 119:84 How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?
Psalms 119:97 Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
Psalms 119:103 How sweet are Your words to my taste—sweeter than honey in my mouth!
Psalms 120:3 What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
Psalms 133:1 A song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!
Psalms 139:17 How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
Psalms 144:3 O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
Proverbs 4:19 But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Proverbs 5:20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 9:13 The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.
Proverbs 15:23 A man takes joy in a fitting reply—and how good is a timely word!
Proverbs 16:16 How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
Proverbs 17:16 Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?
Proverbs 20:24 A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?
Proverbs 22:27 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
Proverbs 25:8 do not bring hastily to court. Otherwise, what will you do in the end when your neighbor puts you to shame?
Proverbs 27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Proverbs 30:4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son—surely you know!
Proverbs 30:13 There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—
Proverbs 31:2 What shall I say, O my son? What, O son of my womb? What, O son of my vows?
Ecclesiastes 1:3 What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:2 I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
Ecclesiastes 2:12 Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?
Ecclesiastes 2:15 So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.