noun · masculine
ēli
Strong’sG2241
Eli
stem ēli-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† ἡλεί (Rec. ἠλί, L, ἡλί; Heb. אֵלִי),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2241 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiday-lee'
my God
Fromof Hebrew origin ( with pronominal suffix);
King JamesEli.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ēli | ēli |
| object accusative | ēli | ēli |
| direct address vocative | ēli2×Ἠλὶ | ēli |
| of, belonging to genitive | ēli | ēli |
| to, for dative | ēli | ēli |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
ēli“Eli”direct addressvocative singular2×
Matthew 27:46… anaboata tos Iēsus fōna mega legarōntos; Ēli ēli lema sabachthaniasa? houtem atō; Theor …… cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My …
Matthew 27:46… tos Iēsus fōna mega legarōntos; Ēli ēli lema sabachthaniasa? houtem atō; Theor mu …… out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God …