Lama

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew 27:46Psalm 22:1

Holman Bible Dictionary

Eli

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

Matthew 27:46. (See Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani.)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

LAMA . See Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani.

King James Dictionary

LAMA, n.

1. The sovereign pontiff, or rather the god of the Asiatic Tartars. 2. A small species of camel, the Camelus lama of South America.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Λαμά (Strong'S #2982 — pronoun — lama — lam-ah', lam-mah' )

is the Hebrew word for "Why?" (the variant lema is the Aramaic form), Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34 .

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

See Eli , Eli , Lama Sabachthani .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(λαμά, Matthew 27:46, which is also read in the best MSS. at Mark 15:34, where the received text has λάμμα; the Heb. has both forms, לָמָה and לָמָּה, lam'mah, for what; the Syriac version has lemono), a term signifying why (as the context explains it, ἱνατί, by which also the Sept. interprets), quoted by our Saviour on1 the cross from Psalms 22:1 [2 in the Hebrew].