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Proverbs 5:20

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Masoretic Text 1524

H4100 And why ולמה

H7686 be ravished תשׁגה

H1121 wilt thou my son בני

H2114 with a strange woman בזרה

H2263 and embrace ותחבק

H2436 the bosom חק

H5237 of a stranger נכריה׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

And

H4100 why

wilt

thou

H1121 son

H7686 ravished

with

strange

H2114 woman

and

H2263 embrace

the

H2436 bosom

H5237 stranger

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