Deuteronomy 29:24:3Deut.29.24.W3PATWLC Deuteronomy 29:23
עַל־מֶה
almeh
“why”
- Transliteration
- al-MEH
- Extended
- ahl-MEH
- IPA
- /ʕalˈmɛ/
Meaning by language
- English
- why
- French
- pourquoi
- Spanish
- por qué
- Portuguese
- por quê
- German
- warum
- Russian
- почему
- Arabic-Simplified
- لماذا
- Hindi
- क्यों
- Chinese-Simplified
- 为什么
- Korean
- 왜
- Indonesian
- mengapa
- Bengali
- কেন
- Tagalog
- bakit
- Swahili
- kwa nini
- Amharic
- ለምን
- Yoruba
- kí ló dé
- Igbo
- gịnị mere
- Twi
- adɛn
- Ewe
- nu ka ta
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
al-MEH
- phraseyour reading level
kol-ha-go-YIM al-MEH a-SA Ye-ho-VAH ka-KHAH la-A-retz ha-ZOT MA kho-RI ha-AF ha-ga-DOL ha-ZEH
- sentence
ve-am-RU kol-ha-go-YIM al-MEH a-SA Ye-ho-VAH ka-KHAH la-A-retz ha-ZOT MA kho-RI ha-AF ha-ga-DOL ha-ZEH
In context — Deuteronomy 29:24
all the nations will say why has done LORD thus to the land this what heat of the anger the great this
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 29:24:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Deuteronomy 29:24, so the Hebrew word עַל־מֶה (almeh) 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 Deut.29.24.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.29.24.W3.S1) and character.