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adverb

Greekλεμά (lema)
Biblang

lema

Strong’sG2982

why

stem lem-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 booksnever changes form

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

λεμά, v.s. λαμά.

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2982 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidlam-ah'

lama (i.e. why)

Fromof Hebrew origin ( with prepositional prefix);

King Jameslama.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Transliteration of Hebrew מָה 'what?' [H4100]. Not in LSJ.

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

lema2×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

lema2×

Matthew 27:46… Iēsus fōna mega legarōntos; Ēli ēli lema sabachthaniasa? houtem atō; Theor mu theor …… in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My …

Mark 15:34… tos Iēsus fōna mega; Elōi elōi lema sabachthaniasa? hem atō methermēneuorōntem Tos theor …… in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My …