Genesis 27:46:16Gen.27.46.W16PAT
לָ֥מָּה
lama
“why”
- Transliteration
- la-MA
- Extended
- lah-MAA
- IPA
- /laː.ˈmaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- why
- French
- pourquoi
- Spanish
- por qué
- Portuguese
- por que
- German
- warum
- Russian
- зачем
- Arabic-Simplified
- لماذا
- Hindi
- क्यों
- Chinese-Simplified
- 为什么
- Korean
- 어찌하여
- Indonesian
- mengapa
- Bengali
- কেন
- Tagalog
- bakit
- Swahili
- kwa nini
- Amharic
- ለምን
- Yoruba
- idi ti
- Igbo
- gini mere
- Twi
- adɛn nti
- 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-MA
- phraseyour reading level
la-MA LI
- clause
im-lo-KE-akh ya-a-KOV i-SHA mib-be-not-KHET ka-EL-leh mib-be-NOT ha-A-rets la-MA LI khai-YIM
- sentence
va-to-MER riv-KA el-yits-KHAK kats-TI ve-khai-YAI mi-pe-NEI be-NOT KHET im-lo-KE-akh ya-a-KOV i-SHA mib-be-not-KHET ka-EL-leh mib-be-NOT ha-A-rets la-MA LI khai-YIM
In context — Genesis 27:46
Rebekah said to Isaac I loathe of my life because of the daughters of Heth if takes Jacob a wife from the daughters of Heth like these from the daughters of the land why to me life
About this coordinate
Genesis 27:46:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Genesis 27:46, so the Hebrew word לָ֥מָּה (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 Gen.27.46.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.27.46.W16.S1) and character.