Dict: smith - SABACHTHANI, OR SABACHTHANI

smith:

SABACHTHANI, OR SABACHTHANI - S>@ - (why hast thou forsaken me?), part of Christ’s fourth cry on the cross. kjv@Matthew:27:46; kjv@Mark:15:34) This, with the other words uttered with it, as given in Mark, is Aramaic (Syro
- Chaldaic), the common dialect of the people of palestine in Christ’s time and the whole is a translation of the Hebrew (given in Matthew) of the first words of the 22d Psalm.
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