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Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani

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Smith's 1863ISBE 1915

Smith's 1863

The Hebrew form, as Eloi, Eloi, etc., is the Syro-Chaldaic (the common language in use by the Jews in the time of Christ) of the first words of the twenty-second Psalm; they mean "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863) · public domain

ISBE 1915

e'-li or a'-le, la'-ma, sa-bak'-tha-ni.

See ELOI.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · public domain

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