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Ecclesiastes 5:16

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Masoretic Text 1524

H1571 also וגם

H2090 And this זה

H7451 evil רעה

H2470 is a sore חולה

H3605 that in all כל

H5980 points עמת

H935 שׁבא

H3651 so כן

H1980 shall he go ילך

H4100 and what ומה

H3504 profit יתרון

H5998 לו שׁיעמל

H7307 for the wind לרוח׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

And

H2090 this

H1571 also

H2470 sore

H7451 evil

that

H3605 all

H5980 points

H7945 came

H3651 so

shall

H1980 go

and

H4100 what

H3504 profit

hath

that

hath

H7945 laboured

for

the

H7307 wind

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