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Lamentations 3:39

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Masoretic Text 1524

H4100 Wherefore מה
H596 complain יתאונן
H120 man אדם
H2416 doth a living חי
H1397   גבר
H5921 for על
H2399 the punishment of his sins חטאו׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H4100 Wherefore
  doth
  a
H2416 living
H120 man
H596 complain
  a
H120 man
  the
  punishment
  of
  his
H2399 sins

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
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.