A primitive particle; 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: - how ({long} {oft} {[-soever]}) [no-] {thing} what ({end} {good} {purpose} {thing}) whereby ({-fore} {-in} {-to} {-with}) (for) why.
Gen 27:45Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: whyH4100 should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
Gen 27:46And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what goodH4100 shall my life do me?
Gen 33:15And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, WhatH4100 needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord. ▼▼
Jos 7:25And Joshua said, WhyH4100 hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
Jdg 6:15And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewithH4100 shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. ▼
Jdg 8:1And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thouH4100 served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply. ▼▼
1Sa 19:3And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and whatH4100 I see, that I will tell thee.
2Sa 1:4And David said unto him, HowH4100 went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also. ▼
2Sa 18:22Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoeverH4100, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready? ▼▼
Sng 1:7Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: forH4100 why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions? ▼
Isa 1:11To whatH4100 purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. ▼
Jer 5:19¶ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, WhereforeH4100 doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Lam 2:13What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thingH4100 shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
Zec 2:2Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see whatH4100is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
Mal 2:14¶ Yet ye say, WhereforeH4100? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.