מָאmâʼ

what?

Pronunciation: maw · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3964

Meanings

1. what? (Daniel 4:32)

2. whatever, what (Daniel 2:22; Ezra 6:9; Daniel 2:28)

3. with prefixes

a. כְּמָה how! (Daniel 3:33)

b. לְמָה why? (Ezra 4:22; Ezra 7:23)

c. עלמֿה wherefore? (Daniel 2:15)

Same root

מָהmâh · H4100properly, 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

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

Ezra 6:8 “Moreover, I hereby decree that you are to help these elders of the Jews as they rebuild this Temple of God. You must pay the full construction costs, without delay, from my taxes collected in the province west of the Euphrates River so that the work will not be interrupted.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).