Mark 15:34:9Mark.15.34.W9TAB
⸀μεγάλῃ·
megalêi
“loud”
- Transliteration
- me-GA-lêi
- Extended
- meh-GAH-LAY
- IPA
- /meˈga.lɛːi/
Meaning by language
- English
- loud
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Alphabet Analysis
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Gamma | gh — guttural | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Eta | i — as in machine |
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The word
Word in context
- word
me-GA-lêi
- clause
KAI têi e-NA-têi HÔ-ra e-BO-ê-sen ho ee-ay-SOOS phō-NÊI me-GA-lêi
- sentence
KAI têi e-NA-têi HÔ-ra e-BO-ê-sen ho ee-ay-SOOS phō-NÊI me-GA-lêi e-lō-Í e-lō-Í le-MA sa-ba-kh-THA-ni
Exegesis
The instrumental dative phone megale {φωνῇ μεγάλῃ | phō-nē me-gá-lē} ‘with a great voice’ expresses the manner of the cry, a Semitic-style idiom meaning a very loud, forceful shout. Direct speech then follows: the Aramaic address and question “Eloi eloi lema sabachthani,” preserving Jesus’ original words as a vocative plea and interrogative lament.
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.
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 15:34:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Mark 15:34, so the Greek word ⸀μεγάλῃ· (megalêi) 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.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.15.34.W9.S1) and character.