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Hebrew-Aramaic
H4100

Original: מה מ־ מ־ מה מה
Transliteration: mah mah ma ma meh (mâh mah mâ ma meh)
Phonetic: maw
BDB Definition:
  1. what, how, of what kind (interrogative pronoun)
    1. (interrogative)
      1. what?
      2. of what kind
      3. what? (rhetorical)
      4. whatsoever, whatever, what
    2. (adverb)
      1. how, how now
      2. why
      3. how! (exclamation)
    3. (with preposition)
      1. wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means?
      2. because of what?
      3. the like of what?
        1. how much?, how many?, how often?
        2. for how long?
      4. for what reason?, why?, to what purpose?
      5. until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore?
  2. anything, aught, what may (indefinite pronoun)
Origin: a primitive particle
TWOT entry: 1149
Strong's Definition: A primitive particle; properly interrogitive what ? (including how ?, why ? and when ?); but also exclamations like what ! (including how !), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses: - how (long, oft, [-soever]), [no-] thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby (-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:
1
2
For (1x)
4
How (3x)
5
How Long (1x)
6
Nothing (1x)
9
To What (1x)
10
11
13
What (4x)
14
What Good (1x)
15
Whereby (1x)
16
Wherefore (1x)
17
Wherein (1x)
18
Wherewith (1x)
19
Why (1x)
20
Occurrences of "To What End"
Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord ! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.


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