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Lamentations 5:20

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Masoretic Text 1524

H4100 Wherefore למה

H5331 לנצח

H7911 dost thou forget תשׁכחנו

H5800 us for ever and forsake תעזבנו

H753 us so long לארך

H3117 time ימים׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H4100 Wherefore

dost

thou

H7911 forget

for

ever

and

H5800 forsake

H753 long

H3117 time

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