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2 Kings 4:2

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Masoretic Text 1524

H559 said ויאמר

H413 unto אליה

H477 And Elisha אלישׁע

H4100 her What מה

H6213 shall I do אעשׂה

H5046 for thee tell לך הגידי

H4100 me what לי מה

H3426 hast ישׁ

H1004 thou in the house לכי בבית

H559 And she said ותאמר

H369 hath not אין

H8198 Thine handmaid לשׁפחתך

H3605 any thing כל

H1004 in the house בבית

H3588 save כי

H518 אם

H610 a pot אסוך

H8081 of oil שׁמן׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

And

H477 Elisha

H559 said

H413 unto

her

H4100 What

shall

H6213 do

for

thee

H5046 tell

H4100 what

H3426 hast

thou

the

H1004 house

And

she

H559 said

Thine

H8198 handmaid

hath

H369 not

any

H3605 thing

the

H1004 house

H3588 save

H610 pot

H8081 oil

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H4100

Hebrew: מָה

Transliteration: mâh

Pronunciation: maw

Bible Usage: how ({long} {oft} {[-soever]}) [no-] {thing} what ({end} {good} {purpose} {thing}) whereby ({-fore} {-in} {-to} {-with}) (for) why.

Definition:

properly interrogitive what ? (including {how ?} why ? and when ?); but also exclamations like what ! (including {how !}) or indefinitely what (including {whatever} and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses

interr pron

1. what, how, of what kind

a. (interrogative)

1. what?

2. of what kind

3. what? (rhetorical)

4. whatsoever, whatever, what

b. (adverb)

1. how, how now

2. why

3. how! (exclamation)

c. (with prep)

1. wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means?

2. because of what?

3. the like of what? 1c

d. how much?, how many?, how often? 1c

e. for how long?

1. for what reason?, why?, to what purpose?

2. until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore? indef pron

2. anything, aught, what may

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906