לָמָה

Biblical Hebrew

Used 178 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: (176); for (1); which (1).

In the verses

Job 9:29 · tree →

אָנֹכִ֥י אֶרְשָׁ֑ע לָמָּה־זֶּ֝֗ה הֶ֣בֶל אִיגָֽע׃

Word for word: I I.will.be.guilty why? this vanity will.I.labor

JPS 1917: I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain?

Psalms 2:1 · tree →

לָ֭מָּה רָגְשׁ֣וּ גוֹיִ֑ם וּ֝לְאֻמִּ֗ים יֶהְגּוּ־רִֽיק׃

Word for word: why? do.they.plot nations and peoples do.they.devise? emptiness

JPS 1917: Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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