Sabachthani
Sabachthani [ebd]
thou hast forsaken me, one of the Aramaic words uttered by our Lord on the cross (Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:34).
SABACHTHANI, OR SABACHTHANI [smith]
(why hast thou forsaken me?), part of Christ?s fourth cry on the cross. (Matthew 27:46; 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. --ED.
