Active 5 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 98k times. Courtesy of Wikipedia However, according to some other sites it is Hebrew. How, then, did the Jews mistake his meaning? Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Byzantine Byzantine 1, 2 2 gold badges 15 15 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges.
Great question. My guess is that, having been beaten, lashed, had a crown of thorns pushed into His head, struck on the head more than once, crucified and left to hang there for a least three hours, with nails in His hands and feet, His speech was less than clear. Excellent question. This might receive some answers maybe on the History. SE — Ovi. Just a guess here but ELIjah might have had something to do with it.
Also, Elijah is invoked fairly regularly in Judaism. It's kind of like how Christians invoke the second coming of Christ. I have a couple of interesting answers here, yet they are both so different it is hard to decide which one is the most accurate. I'm just not going to accept either for the moment, and will be looking forward to more answers, that is if anyone else thinks they can add anything to what has been said.
I think we also need to understand that nobody was at the foot of the cross as we often see. People were far from the cross while the execution was proceeding. Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. Misheard In the first view, the crowd was at a significant enough distance that they could not hear Jesus clearly. Purposely distorted The other option is that the crowd heard Jesus alright but seized on the opportunity to mock Jesus. Analysis In my view, a simple misunderstanding is more likely.
As the Pulpit Commentary points out, the fact that the insult theory relies on a Jewish audience purposefully distorting the name of God also creates a significant difficulty: The time of ribaldry and abuse is now past; the supernatural darkness has had a calming and terrifying effect; and there is no spirit of mockery left in the awed bystanders.
Improve this answer. ThaddeusB ThaddeusB 7, 4 4 gold badges 39 39 silver badges 73 73 bronze badges. Add a comment. And sitting down they watched him there ; …And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? Rick Rick 3, 5 5 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. Would the centurions have known of Elijah or expected him to come? Romans were aware of many belief systems, this was a big event. They likely knew enough to make an uninformed comment.
Only "some" thought he was calling for Elijah--not all. Narnian, Yes that makes sense to me — Rick. Show 2 more comments. Jewish Historian Josephus wrote: " I have also taken a great deal of pains to obtain the learning of the Greeks, and understand the elements of the Greek language, although I have so long accustomed myself to speak our own tongue, that I cannot pronounce Greek with sufficient exactness; for our nation does not encourage those that learn the languages of many nations, and so adorn their discourses with the smoothness of their periods ; because they look upon this sort of accomplishment as common, not only to all sorts of free-men, but to as many of the servants as please to learn them.
People generally spelled words as they sounded. Some letters, especially vowels can be debated as to which is the closest sound in another language, so though we might assume that elahi would be spelled elai in Greek remember there is no general h sound in Greek , we don't know exactly how the ah sound was pronounced in those days. Omega could well be the closest approximation as rendered in Mark. Finally, we must realize that people don't always pronounce their words distinctly.
This causes dialects to appear. For example, in the English word herb is pronounced erb in America even though in England the leading h is sounded. Greek, for instance, commonly drops a vowel when one word ends in a vowel and the next word begins with a vowel.
The process is called "elided. It is possible, and even likely that center vowel in elahi was weak or even dropped in his dialect. One reason to suspect this is because it was a Jewish region and the Hebrew word for "my God" is eli.
So people who spoke both Hebrew and Aramaic would naturally have a tendency to blend toward a similar sound. Gorazd said:. In romanian we have the word for father - tata , and affectively we say tati, which is also taken as "my father".. Aristocles Merarches. Net Guru. The best explanation I read was that Jesus more likely said "Eli" than "Eloi" because the people thought He was calling for Elijah. I think that in Hebrew, Elijah is pronounced "Elia". Luke Taxiarches. The rest of the phrase is Aramaic.
My conversational German, let's be honest, German period, has gone to hell. Do mind posting everything you write in German as well, so that I can keep up the Bahnhofdeutsch I have left? Than what? The names for God beggining with E that i know are El and Elohim and none of these forms happen in there. RaphaCam Patriarch of Trashposting. Any thoughts as to why that difference is there?
When Jesus spoke those words, he had been on the cross for several hours. There were blood loss, muscle strain, and difficulty in breathing. Articulation was compromised.
Jesus' heart and lungs were taxed to the limit at that time. Adding to that, there were two different transliterations for "my God".
When he spoke, it was understandable that some of the bystanders thought he was calling for Elijah. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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