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Numbers 13:20
“And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4100 · Hebrew
- 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
- Derivation
- or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle;
- KJV renderings
- how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- מָ֣ה — particle (interrogative)
- Usage
- Occurs 750 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:19Genesis 3:13Genesis 4:6Genesis 4:6Genesis 4:10
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.