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Numbers 20:5

“And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

מָהmâh · maw
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: וְ — conjunction
לָ — preposition
מָ֤ה — particle (interrogative)
Code HC/R/Ti
Usage: Occurs 750 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:19 Genesis 3:13 Genesis 4:6 Genesis 4:6 Genesis 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.

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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.