Judges 18:24:7Judg.18.24.W7TAB
וּמַה־לִּ֣י
umali
“and what is to me”
- Transliteration
- u-ma-LI
- Extended
- oo-mah-LEE
- IPA
- /uː.maˈlːiː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and what is to me
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
u-ma-LI
- phraseyour reading level
u-ma-LI OD
- clause
va-YO-mer et-e-lo-HAI a-sher-a-SI-ti le-kakh-TEM ve-et-ha-ko-HEN va-tel-KHU u-ma-LI OD
- sentence
va-YO-mer et-e-lo-HAI a-sher-a-SI-ti le-kakh-TEM ve-et-ha-ko-HEN va-tel-KHU u-ma-LI OD u-ma-ZE to-me-RU e-LAI ma-LAKH
Exegesis
The lament idiom ū-mah-lî-ʿōḏ {וּמַה־לִּ֣י עוֹד | ū-mah-lî ʿōḏ} ‘what do I have left’ conveys utter destitution, while the paired interrogatives mah-zē tōʾmrū ʾēlāy mah-lāḵ {מַה־זֶּה תֹּאמְרוּ אֵלַי מַה־לָּךְ} heighten indignation through rhetorical parallelism.
Root and etymology
m-h
“what”
In context — Judges 18:24
He said, “You carried off the gods I made, and also the priest , and you left. What is left for me? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”
About this coordinate
Judges 18:24:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Judges 18:24, so the Hebrew word וּמַה־לִּ֣י (umali) 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 Judg.18.24.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.18.24.W7.S1) and character.