Genesis 42:1:9Gen.42.1.W9PAT
לָ֖מָּה
lama
“why”
- Transliteration
- LA-ma
- Extended
- LAA-ma
- IPA
- /ˈlaːm.ma/
Meaning by language
- English
- why
- French
- pourquoi
- Spanish
- por qué
- Portuguese
- por que
- German
- warum
- Russian
- почему
- Arabic-Simplified
- لِمَاذَا
- Hindi
- क्यों
- Chinese-Simplified
- 为什么
- Korean
- 왜
- Indonesian
- mengapa
- Bengali
- কেন
- Tagalog
- bakit
- Swahili
- kwa nini
- Amharic
- ለምን
- Yoruba
- èé ṣe
- Igbo
- gịnị mere
- Twi
- adɛn nti
- Ewe
- nuka ta
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Result
לָ֖ + מָּה
↓
la + ma
↓
lama
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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Vowels (Niqqud)
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The word
Word in context
- word
LA-ma
- clause
va-YO-mer ya-a-KOV le-va-NAV LA-ma ti-te-ra-U
- sentence
va-YAR ya-a-KOV KI yesh-SHE-ver be-mits-RA-yim va-YO-mer ya-a-KOV le-va-NAV LA-ma ti-te-ra-U
In context — Genesis 42:1
saw Jacob that there is grain in Egypt said Jacob to his sons why do you look at one another
About this coordinate
Genesis 42:1:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 42:1, so the Hebrew word לָ֖מָּה (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.42.1.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.42.1.W9.S1) and character.