noun · masculine

ēli

Greekἠλί (ēli)

Strong’sG2241

Eli

stem ēli-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Eli2×

What it means

† ἡλεί (Rec. ἠλί, L, ἡλί; Heb. אֵלִי),

Eli, my God: Mt 27:46 (cf. ἐλωΐ).†

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.

Every form

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

ēlistem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

ēli — Ἠλί, Eli

Where it appears

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

ēli“Eli”direct addressvocative singular2×

Matthew 27:46“Eli”peri de tan enatan hōran anaboata tos Iēsus fōna mega legarōtos; Ēli ēli lema sabachthaniasa? houtem atō; Theor mu theor mu, hinati min enkataleipasa?About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Matthew 27:46“Eli”peri de tan enatan hōran anaboata tos Iēsus fōna mega legarōtos; Ēli ēli lema sabachthaniasa? houtem atō; Theor mu theor mu, hinati min enkataleipasa?About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”