sa'-est: "Thou sayest" (Mt 27:11; Mr 15:2; Lu 22:70, "Ye say"; Joh 18:37), i.e. rightly; "Thou hast said" (Mt 26:25,64), = "Yes"; a rabbinical idiom never found in the Old Testament. Mr 14:62 renders by "I am." All these passages WHm punctuate interrogatively (compare Kethubhoth, f. 103 b).
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Sayest
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr (1915). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.