מָה

mâh · Hebrew · Strong's H4101 · 13 occurrences

The KJV renders 10 different Hebrew and Greek words as “what”

What it means

{properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what}

(Aramaic) corresponding to H4100 (מָה)

How the KJV renders it

how great, that which, what, why

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“what”

also renders hoîos (G3634), hoútō (G3779), tìs (G5100), pósos (G4214), poîos (G4169), potapós (G4217), gam (H1571), dâbâr (H1697), mân (H4479)

“how great”

also renders hēlíkos (G2245), pēlíkos (G4080)

“why”

also renders hinatí (G2444), tís (G5101)

Where it appears

13 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 11 verses shown.

Daniel 2:15 ATiDaniel 2:22 APfxbsDaniel 2:28 APfxbsDaniel 2:29 APfxbsDaniel 2:45 APfxbsDaniel 4:3 AR/PfxcsDaniel 4:35 APixbsEzra 4:22 AR/TiEzra 6:9 AC/PfxcsEzra 7:18 AC/PfxcsEzra 7:23 AR/Pixcs

Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.