Mark 15:34:24Mark.15.34.W24TAB
τί
tí
“why”
- Transliteration
- TÍ
- Extended
- TEE
- IPA
- /ˈti/
Meaning by language
- English
- why
Alphabet Analysis
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
TÍ
- phraseyour reading level
eis TÍ en-ga-TE-li-pés me
- sentence
HO ES-tin me-ther-mē-neu-O-me-non ho the-OS mou ho the-OS mou eis TÍ en-ga-TE-li-pés me
Exegesis
The content of this gloss is a vocative clause, Ho theos mou ho theos mou {Ὁ θεός μου ὁ θεός μου | Ho the-ós mou ho the-ós mou} ‘My God, My God’, followed by the interrogative phrase eis ti engkatelipes me {εἰς τί ἐγκατέλιπές με | eis tí eng-ka-té-li-pes me} ‘for what (reason) did You forsake Me?’, where eis ti functions idiomatically as “why,” and the aorist engkatelipes portrays a decisive act of abandonment. The overall structure closely mirrors the opening line of Psalm 22:1, casting Jesus’ cry as a scriptural lament that combines intense anguish with direct address to God.
Root and etymology
stratossigma–tau–rho–alpha–tau–omicron–sigma
“army, encamped force”
In context — Mark 15:34
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which is, being translated, “My God , My God, why did You forsake Me?”
About this coordinate
Mark 15:34:24 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 24 of Mark 15:34, so the Greek word τί (tí) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Mark.15.34.W24, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.15.34.W24.S1) and character.