Hebrew Study
Strong’s Concordance H4100
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- mah
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H4100
- Brief meaning
- Or ma {maw}, or ma {mah}, also meh {meh}, a primitive particle, properly
- Source renderings
- how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why
- Root word
- maw or mah {mah}
- Full definition from the source
- Or ma {maw}; or ma {mah}; also meh {meh}; a primitive particle; 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. Root word: maw or mah {mah}.
Source info
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier's 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.
View the 1890 print witnessView preserved source wording
04100\ 4100 mah maw or mah {mah}; or ma {maw}; or ma {mah}; also meh {meh}; a primitive particle; 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:--how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.