Ἐλωΐ

my God

Translated by Ross Scaife ✝13 May 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

4 words

[An expression] in Hebrew.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐλωΐ· Ἑβραϊστί.

Betacode

*)elwi/+: *(ebrai+sti/.

According to Mark 15:34-35, the last words of Jesus were אלאי אלאי למא שבקתני ʾeloi ʾeloi lama šaḇaqtānī (eta 210), apparently an Aramaic recitation of the beginning of the 22nd Psalm: אלי אלי למה עזבתני ʾelī ʾelī lama ʿazaḇtānī. See also alpha 24.