| Lexical Summary lima: whyOriginal Word: λιμά Transliteration: lima Phonetic Spelling: (lam-ah') Part of Speech: Aramaic Transliterated Word (Indeclinable); Hebrew Short Definition: why Meaning: why Strong's Concordancelama, why Or lamma lam-mah'; of Hebrew origin (mah with prepositional prefix); lama (i.e. Why) -- lama. see HEBREW mah Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 2982: λαμά λαμά (R G (on the accent see Tdf. Proleg. 102)) in Matthew 27:46 and λαμμᾶ (R G) Mark 15:34 (the Hebrew word לָמָּה from Psalm 21:1 STRONGS NT 2982: λαμμᾶλαμμᾶ, see λαμά. STRONGS NT 2982: λεμα [λεμα, see λαμά.] STRONGS NT 2982: λῆμα [λῆμα., see λαμά.] STRONGS NT 2982: λιμάλιμά, so Tdf. edition 7, for λαμά, which see.    | 



