FROM SMITH’S BIBLE DICTIONARY (1884)

Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1884) — public domain, printed whole.

(why hast thou forsaken me?), part of Christ�s fourth cry on the cross. (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34) This, with the other words uttered with it, as given in Mark, is Aramaic (Syro-Chaldaic), the common dialect of the people of palestine in Christ�s time and the whole is a translation of the Hebrew (given in Matthew) of the first words of the 22d Psalm. --ED.