לָמָה

«לָמָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 178 times · Key: lemma:לָמָה

Glosses

(176); for (1); which (1)

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «לָמָה» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Job 9:29

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

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?

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