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Job 27:8

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Masoretic Text 1524

H3588 For כי

H4100 what מה

H8615 is the hope תקות

H2611 of the hypocrite חנף

H3588 though כי

H1214 he hath gained יבצע

H3588 when כי

H7953 taketh away ישׁל

H433 God אלוה

H5315 his soul נפשׁו׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H3588 For

H4100 what

the

H8615 hope

the

H2611 hypocrite

H3588 though

hath

H1214 gained

H3588 when

H433 God

taketh

H7953 away

his

H5315 soul

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