Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani

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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?"

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← Eli × Eliab →

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Eli
1) the offering or lifting up 2) Eli, my God, my God ...

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Eli
Ascent, the high priest when the ark was at Shiloh (1 Sam. 1:3, 9). He was the first of the line of ...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Eli
(ascension), a descendant of Aaron through Ithamar, the youngest of his two surviving sons. (Levitic...

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Sabachthani
Thou hast forsaken me, one of the Aramaic words uttered by our Lord on the cross (Matt. 27:46; Mark ...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Sabachthani
Or Sabachthani (why hast thou forsaken me?), part of Christ's fourth cry on the cross. (Matthew 27:...

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Lama
LAMA[VETTONES] ...

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
lama
lāma, ae, f. (cf.: lacus, lacer). I A slough, bog, fen : lacuna id est aquae collectio, quam alii la...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
lama
lāma ae, f 2 LAC-, a slough, bog, fen : Viribus uteris per lamas, H. ...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
Lama
·noun ·see <<Llama>>. II. Lama ·noun In Thibet, Mongolia, ·etc., a priest or monk of the belief cal...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Lama
(Matt. 27:46), a Hebrew word meaning why, quoted from Ps. 22:1. ...

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