Biblical Hebrew Forum

["C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>]

What to me and to you?

The expression: mh-ly wlK  :or:  mh-ly wlkM is found in Judg. 11:12,
2Sam. 16:10, 2Sam. 19:23, 1Kings 17:18, 2Kings 3:13, 2Chr. 35:21.

I am assuming this expression was a "street" idiom in the 2nd Temple period.
If so, did the idiom carry a connotation of anger, hostility or irritation
on the part of the speaker?

I am responding to a note in J.A. Fitzmyer (AB, Luke 1-9) where he states
that the Semitic idiom rendered in Luke 4:34 ti hemin kai soi carries a
connotation of hostility.

My question: Did the idiom have that connotation in the passages cited
above? What about in the in the 2nd Temple period? Evidence?

greetings,
Clay Bartholomew