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Hebrew wordlink #122598

OSHB Jdg 20:12 מָה (māh) ‘what?’ Strongs=4100 Lemma=‘מָה’
Morphology=Ti PoS=interrogative_particle

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Showing the first 50 out of 146 uses of identical word form מָה (Morphology=Ti PoS=interrogative_particle) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מָה’ (Morphology=Ti PoS=interrogative_particle) has 5 different glosses: ‘how!’, ‘what?’, ‘whatever’, ‘when?’, ‘why?’.

GEN 20:10 ‘what?’ OSHB GEN 20:10 word 5

GEN 21:29 ‘what?’ OSHB GEN 21:29 word 5

GEN 27:37 ‘what?’ OSHB GEN 27:37 word 20

GEN 30:31 ‘what?’ OSHB GEN 30:31 word 2

GEN 31:32 ‘what?’ OSHB GEN 31:32 word 12

GEN 31:43 ‘what?’ OSHB GEN 31:43 word 19

GEN 37:10 ‘what?’ OSHB GEN 37:10 word 11

GEN 38:18 ‘what?’ OSHB GEN 38:18 word 2

GEN 44:15 ‘what?’ OSHB GEN 44:15 word 4

EXO 3:13 ‘what?’ OSHB EXO 3:13 word 21

EXO 12:26 ‘what?’ OSHB EXO 12:26 word 6

EXO 16:7 ‘what?’ OSHB EXO 16:7 word 12

EXO 16:8 ‘what?’ OSHB EXO 16:8 word 21

EXO 17:4 ‘what?’ OSHB EXO 17:4 word 6

EXO 18:14 ‘what?’ OSHB EXO 18:14 word 11

EXO 33:5 ‘what?’ OSHB EXO 33:5 word 23

NUM 22:32 ‘what?’ OSHB NUM 22:32 word 6

NUM 23:8 ‘what?’ OSHB NUM 23:8 word 1

NUM 24:22 ‘when?’ OSHB NUM 24:22 word 7

DEU 6:20 ‘what?’ OSHB DEU 6:20 word 6

DEU 10:12 ‘what?’ OSHB DEU 10:12 word 3

DEU 32:20 ‘what?’ OSHB DEU 32:20 word 6

JOS 4:6 ‘what?’ OSHB JOS 4:6 word 11

JOS 4:21 ‘what?’ OSHB JOS 4:21 word 13

JOS 5:14 ‘what?’ OSHB JOS 5:14 word 18

JOS 7:8 ‘what?’ OSHB JOS 7:8 word 3

JOS 22:16 ‘what?’ OSHB JOS 22:16 word 6

JDG 8:1 ‘what?’ OSHB JDG 8:1 word 5

JDG 9:48 ‘whatever’ OSHB JDG 9:48 word 27

JDG 18:8 ‘what?’ OSHB JDG 18:8 word 9

JDG 18:18 ‘what?’ OSHB JDG 18:18 word 16

1SA 3:17 ‘what?’ OSHB 1SA 3:17 word 2

1SA 6:4 ‘what?’ OSHB 1SA 6:4 word 2

1SA 9:7 ‘what?’ OSHB 1SA 9:7 word 18

1SA 10:2 ‘what?’ OSHB 1SA 10:2 word 29

1SA 10:15 ‘what?’ OSHB 1SA 10:15 word 7

1SA 19:3 ‘whatever’ OSHB 1SA 19:3 word 16

1SA 28:13 ‘what?’ OSHB 1SA 28:13 word 7

1SA 28:15 ‘what?’ OSHB 1SA 28:15 word 31

1SA 29:3 ‘what?’ OSHB 1SA 29:3 word 4

2SA 12:21 ‘what?’ OSHB 2SA 12:21 word 4

2SA 16:2 ‘what?’ OSHB 2SA 16:2 word 5

2SA 18:22 ‘whatever’ OSHB 2SA 18:22 word 10

2SA 18:23 ‘whatever’ OSHB 2SA 18:23 word 2

2SA 18:29 ‘whatever’ OSHB 2SA 18:29 word 20

2SA 21:3 ‘what?’ OSHB 2SA 21:3 word 5

2SA 21:4 ‘what?’ OSHB 2SA 21:4 word 18

2SA 24:13 ‘what?’ OSHB 2SA 24:13 word 32

1KI 3:5 ‘what?’ OSHB 1KI 3:5 word 11

1KI 9:13 ‘what?’ OSHB 1KI 9:13 word 2

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘מָה’’ have 6 different glosses: ‘how!’, ‘what’, ‘what?’, ‘whatever’, ‘when?’, ‘why?’.