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Job 21:15

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Masoretic Text 1524

H4100 What מה

H7706 is the Almighty שׁדי

H3588 that כי

H5647 we should serve נעבדנו

H4100 him and what ומה

H3276 profit נועיל

H3588 should we have if כי

H6293 we pray נפגע׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H4100 What

the

H7706 Almighty

H3588 that

should

H5647 serve

him

and

H4100 what

H3276 profit

should

have

H3588 if

H6293 pray

unto

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