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From: "David Stabnow" <dstabno AT lifeway.com>
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: what to me and to you
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:37:48 -0500

Is the phrase *mah li walak* still a current saying in modern Hebrew or
Arabic? How is it used?

It is found in Judges 11:12; 2 Sam 16:10 and 19:22; 1 Kings 17:18; 2 Kings
3:13; 2 Chron 35:21; Mark 5:7 (// Luke 8:28); and John 2:4. Variations
occur in Joshua 22:24 and 2 Kings 9:18-19.

Dave

what to me and to you, David Stabnow, 10/17/2001