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1 Samuel 28:16

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Masoretic Text 1524

H559 Then said ויאמר

H8050 Samuel שׁמואל

H4100 Wherefore ולמה

H7592 then dost thou ask תשׁאלני

H3068 of me seeing the LORD ויהוה

H5493 is departed סר

H5921 מעליך

H1961 thee and is become ויהי

H6145 thine enemy ערך׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

Then

H559 said

H8050 Samuel

H4100 Wherefore

then

dost

thou

H7592 ask

seeing

the

H3068 LORD

H5493 departed

H4480 from

thee

and

H1961 become

thine

H6145 enemy

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