2 Samuel 16:10:32 Sam.16.10.W3TAB
מַה־לִּ֥י
mali
“what to me or what have I to do with”
- Transliteration
- ma-LI
- Extended
- mah-LEE
- IPA
- /maˈl.liː/
Meaning by language
- English
- what to me or what have I to do with
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ma-LI
- phraseyour reading level
ma-LI ve-la-KHEM
- clause
va-YO-mer ha-ME-lekh ma-LI ve-la-KHEM be-NE tse-ru-YA
- sentence
va-YO-mer ha-ME-lekh ma-LI ve-la-KHEM be-NE tse-ru-YA KI KO ye-ka-LEL ve-KHI KI ye-ho-VAH a-MAR LO ka-LEL et-da-VID u-MI yo-MAR ma-DU-a a-si-TA KEN
Exegesis
The idiomatic mah-li ve-lakhem {מַה־לִּי וְלָכֶ֖ם | mah-lī wə-lā-khem} ‘what have I to do with you’ creates a distancing rhetorical question.
Root and etymology
m-hmem–heh
“what”
In context — 2 Samuel 16:10
But the king said, “What have I to do with you, sons of Zeruiah? Let him curse , because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David.’ Who then can say, ‘Why have you done this?’”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 16:10:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Samuel 16:10, so the Hebrew word מַה־לִּ֥י (mali) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 2 Sam.16.10.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.16.10.W3.S1) and character.