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Strong's H4100 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: מָה (mâh)

Pronunciation: maw

Morphology: i

Part of Speech: interr pron, indef pron

Derivation: or מַה (mah); or מָ (mâ); or מַ (ma); also מֶה (meh); a primitive particle;

Definition: 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

KJV Renderings: how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.

Senses

what, how, of what kind

(interrogative)
what?
of what kind
what? (rhetorical)
whatsoever, whatever, what
(adverb)
how, how now
why
how! (exclamation)
(with prep)
wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means?
because of what?
the like of what?

how much?, how many?, how often?
for how long?

for what reason?, why?, to what purpose?
until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore?

anything, aught, what may

Cross References

Strong's	Original	Transliteration	Derivation	Definition	KJV Renderings
G155	αἴτημα	aítēma	from G154	a thing asked or (abstractly) an asking	petition, request, required
G2425	ἱκανός	hikanós	from ἵκω (híkō) (ἱκάνω (hikánō) or ἱκνέομαι (hiknéomai), akin to G2240) (to arrive)	competent (as if coming in season), i.e. ample (in amount) or fit (in character)	able, + content, enough, good, great, large, long (while), many, meet, much, security, sore, sufficient, worthy
G3029	λίαν	lían	of uncertain affinity	much (adverbially)	exceeding, great(-ly), sore, very (+ chiefest)
G4169	ποῖος	poîos	from the base of G4226 and G3634	individualizing interrogative (of character) what sort of, or (of number) which one	what (manner of), which
G5101	τίς	tís	probably emphatic of G5100	an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)	every man, how (much), + no(-ne, thing), what (manner, thing), where (-by, -fore, -of, -unto, - with, -withal), whether, which, who(-m, -se), why
G2982	λαμά	lamá	of Hebrew origin (H4100 with prepositional prefix)	lama (i.e. why)	lama

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.

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