Genesis 31:27:1Gen.31.27.W1PAT
לָ֤מָּה
lamma
“why”
- Transliteration
- lam-MA
- Extended
- lah-MAA
- IPA
- /lam.ˈmaː/
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
- kí nìdí
- Igbo
- gịnị 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
lam-MA
- phraseyour reading level
lam-MA nakh-be-TA
- clause
lam-MA nakh-be-TA li-ve-RO-akh va-tig-NOV o-TI
- sentence
lam-MA nakh-be-TA li-ve-RO-akh va-tig-NOV o-TI ve-lo-hi-GAD-ta LI va-a-shal-LE-akh-kha be-sim-KHA u-ve-shi-RIM be-TOF u-ve-khi-NOR
In context — Genesis 31:27
why you hid yourself to flee you stole me you did not tell to me I would have sent you away with joy and with songs with a tambourine and with a lyre
About this coordinate
Genesis 31:27:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 31:27, so the Hebrew word לָ֤מָּה (lamma) 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.31.27.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.31.27.W1.S1) and character.