Semitic Etymological Database
be-ḥay mek ˁed ‘By your life!’ (a formula of swearing):
be-ḥay mek ˁed kaḷ ekóbki ‘I swear by your life that we will enter!’ (CSOL II 20:53)
ˁad náˁaʰ ‘up to this moment, still now’ (c)