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what? how? anything Original Word: מָהTransliteration: mah or ma- or meh Phonetic Spelling: (maw) Short Definition: how long
a prim. interrogative and indefinite particle Definition what? how? anything NASB Word Usage anything (2), how (93), how long (2), how many (3), how many* (2), how often (2), how* (1), if* (1), many (1), nothing* (1), reason* (2), what (405), whatever (5), whatever* (2), where (3), where* (1), which (1), which* (3), who (2), why (196), why* (14). NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation All rights reserved Lockman.org
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.
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