Exodus 5:22:6Exod.5.22.W6PAT
לָמָ֤ה
lamah
“why”
- Transliteration
- la-MAH
- Extended
- lah-MAAH
- IPA
- /laːˈmaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- why
- French
- pourquoi
- Spanish
- por qué
- Portuguese
- por que
- 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
- kilode
- Igbo
- gịnị mere
- Twi
- adɛn nti na
- Ewe
- nukata
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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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The word
Word in context
- word
la-MAH
- phraseyour reading level
la-MAH ha-re-o-TAH
- clause
a-do-NAI la-MAH ha-re-o-TAH la-AM ha-ZEH lam-MAH ZEH she-lakh-TA-ni
- sentence
va-ya-SHAV mo-SHEH el-ye-ho-VAH va-yo-MAR a-do-NAI la-MAH ha-re-o-TAH la-AM ha-ZEH lam-MAH ZEH she-lakh-TA-ni
In context — Exodus 5:22
and returned Moses to the LORD and said Lord why have done evil to the people this why this you sent me
About this coordinate
Exodus 5:22:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Exodus 5:22, so the Hebrew word לָמָ֤ה (lamah) 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 Exod.5.22.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.5.22.W6.S1) and character.