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Ecclesiastes 8:7

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Masoretic Text 1524

H3588 For כי

H369 not איננו

H3045 he knoweth ידע

H4100 that מה

H1961 שׁיהיה

H3588 for כי

H834 him when כאשׁר

H1961 יהיה

H4310 who מי

H5046 can tell יגיד׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H3588 For

H3045 knoweth

H369 not

H4100 that

which

shall

H7945 be

H3588 for

H4310 who

can

H5046 tell

him

H834 when

shall

H7945 be

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