1 Samuel 22:13:51 Sam.22.13.W5TAB
לָ֚מָּה
lama
“why”
- Transliteration
- LA-ma
- Extended
- LAA-mah
- IPA
- /ˈlaːm.maː/
Meaning by language
- English
- why
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Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
LA-ma
- clause
va-YO-mer E-lav e-LAV sha-UL LA-ma ke-shar-TEM a-LAI a-TA u-ven-yish-TAI
- sentence
va-YO-mer E-lav e-LAV sha-UL LA-ma ke-shar-TEM a-LAI a-TA u-ven-yish-TAI be-tit-KHA LO LE-khem ve-KHE-rev ve-sha-OL LO be-e-lo-HIM la-KUM e-LAI le-o-REV ka-YOM ha-ZE
Exegesis
The interrogative adverb lamah {לָ֚מָּה | lā-māh} ‘why’ introduces the perfect verb keshartem {קְשַׁרְתֶּ֣ם | kə-šar-tēm} ‘you conspired,’ which carries the suffix alai {עָלַ֔י | ʻā-lay} ‘against me.’
In context — 1 Samuel 22:13
And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, by giving him bread and a sword and by inquiring of God for him, so that he rises up against me to lie in ambush as on this very day?”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 22:13:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 1 Samuel 22:13, so the Hebrew word לָ֚מָּה (lama) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Sam.22.13.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.22.13.W5.S1) and character.