Sabachtha'ni, or Sabach'thani

(why hast thou forsaken me?), part of Christ's fourth cry on the cross.

Mt 27:46; Mr 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.