Genesis 47:19:1Gen.47.19.W1PAT
לָ֧מָּה
lama
“why”
- Transliteration
- la-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
- 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-MA
- phraseyour reading level
la-MA na-MUT le-ei-NE-kha
- clause
la-MA na-MUT le-ei-NE-kha gam-a-NAKH-nu GAM ad-ma-TE-nu ke-neh-o-TA-nu ve-et-ad-ma-TE-nu bal-LA-khem
- sentence
la-MA na-MUT le-ei-NE-kha gam-a-NAKH-nu GAM ad-ma-TE-nu ke-neh-o-TA-nu ve-et-ad-ma-TE-nu bal-LA-khem ve-nih-YE a-NAKH-nu ve-ad-ma-TE-nu a-va-DIM le-far-O ve-ten-ZE-ra ve-nikh-YE ve-LO na-MUT ve-ha-a-da-MA LO te-SHAM
In context — Genesis 47:19
why will die before your eyes also we also our land buy us and our land for the bread will be we and our land servants to Pharaoh give seed we may live and not we will die and the land not be desolate
About this coordinate
Genesis 47:19:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 47:19, so the Hebrew word לָ֧מָּה (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.47.19.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.47.19.W1.S1) and character.