Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani

The Hebrew form, as Eloi, Eloi, etc., is the Syro-Chaldaic (the common language in use by the Jews in the time of Christ) of the first words of the twenty-second Psalm; they mean "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

Smith’s Bible Dictionary, William Smith (1863). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.