sa'-est: "Thou sayest" (Mt 27:11;Mr 15:2;Lu 22:70, "Ye say";Joh 18:37), i.e. rightly; "Thou hast said" (Mt 26:25,64), = "Yes"; a rabbinical idiom never found in the Old Testament.Mr 14:62renders by "I am." All these passages WHm punctuate interrogatively (compare Kethubhoth, f. 103 b).
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr, General Editor, 1844–1913 edition.