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Job 7:17

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Masoretic Text 1524

H4100 What מה

H582 is man אנושׁ

H3588 that כי

H1431 thou shouldest magnify תגדלנו

H3588 him and that וכי

H7896 thou shouldest set תשׁית

H413 upon אליו

H3820 thine heart לבך׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H4100 What

H582 man

H3588 that

thou

shouldest

H1431 magnify

him

and

H3588 that

thou

shouldest

H7896 set

thine

H3820 heart

H413 upon

him

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