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(2 Chronicles 30:3)

מָה: what? how? aught, used of things, as מִי of persons

1. interrogative what?

a. in a direct question, before either verbs or nouns (Genesis 4:10; Genesis 15:2; Exodus 3:13)

b. often in an indirect question, as after ראה (Genesis 2:19; Genesis 37:20; Numbers 13:19)

c. = of what kind? (Genesis 37:10; Genesis 44:15; Joshua 22:16)

d. often used in questions to which the answer little, or nothing, is expected, and it thus becomes equivalent to a rhetorical negative (Genesis 23:15; Genesis 27:37; Judges 8:3)

e. = whatsoever (Judges 9:48; 2 Samuel 21:4; Job 6:24)

2. Used adverbially

a. how?, why?, as an interrogative (Genesis 44:16; Numbers 23:8; 1 Samuel 10:27)

b. how …!, as an exclamation (Genesis 28:17; Genesis 38:29; Numbers 24:5)

3. anything, aught, indefinite pronoun (Numbers 23:3; 1 Samuel 19:3; 1 Samuel 20:10)

4. With prepositions

a. wherein?, whereby? (Exodus 22:26; Judges 16:5; 1 Samuel 14:38)

b. because of what? (Haggai 1:9)

c. the like of what?, how much? how many? (Genesis 47:8; 2 Samuel 19:35; Psalms 119:84)

d. for what reason? why? (Psalms 42:10; Psalms 43:2; 1 Samuel 28:15)

e. until when? how long? (Psalms 4:3; Numbers 24:22; Psalms 79:5)

f. upon what?, upon what ground? wherefore? (Job 38:6; 2 Chronicles 32:10; Numbers 22:32)