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Joshua 4:6

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Masoretic Text 1524

H4616 That למען

H1961 may be תהיה

H2063 this זאת

H226 a sign אות

H7130 among בקרבכם

H3588 when כי

H7592 ask ישׁאלון

H1121 your children בניכם

H4279 their fathers in time to come מחר

H559 saying לאמר

H4100 What מה

H68 stones האבנים

H428 mean ye by these האלה׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H4616 That

H2063 this

may

H1961 be

H226 sign

H7130 among

you

H4616 that

H3588 when

your

H1121 children

H7592 ask

their

fathers

time

H4279 come

H559 saying

H4100 What

mean

H428 these

H68 stones

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