Exegesis:

kai autos phōnēsas eipen ‘and he raising his voice said,’ hence, ‘and he called out.’

pater Abraam ‘father Abraham,’ cf. on 3.8.

eleēson me ‘have pity on me’; the aorist tense points to a specific act of pity as indicated by pempson, etc.

pempson Lazaron ‘send Lazarus,’ i.e. send him over to this place.

hina bapsē to akron tou daktulou autou hudatos ‘(in order) to dip the tip of his finger in water.’ Strictly speaking the dipping precedes the going over. This implies that pempson means not only ‘order to go’ but also ‘order to do.’

baptō ‘to dip,’ here with genitive of that into which something is dipped (hudatos).

akron ‘tip’ of a finger, ‘top’ of a mountain.

kai kaptapsuxē tēn glōssan mou ‘and to cool my tongue,’ only a very small alleviation. glōssa, cf. on 1.64.

katapsuchō ‘to cool off,’ ‘to refresh.’

odunōmai en tē phlogi tautē ‘I am in agony in these flames,’ cf. on 2.48.

phlox ‘flame,’ here in a collective sense, ‘flames,’ ‘fire.’

Translation:

Called out, or, “called to him and said” (An American Translation), ‘cried out, saying’ (Indonesian languages).

Have mercy upon me, cf. on 1.50.

To dip the end of his finger, stressing the smallness of the matter requested: immerse/moisten for a moment only a small part of the smallest finger.

To cool has in many languages been rendered by causative verbs built on ‘cool/cold/fresh,’ elsewhere by ‘to ease’ (Batak Toba), ‘to alleviate the pain/heat of,’ ‘to besprinkle’ (Tae,’ designating the act itself instead of its result).

I am in anguish, or, ‘I suffer pain,’ referring to the emotion felt by him while “being in torment” (v. 23), which refers to what happened to him.

Quoted with permission from Reiling, J. and Swellengrebel, J.L. A Handbook on the Gospel of Luke. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1971. For this and other handbooks for translators see here . Make sure to also consult the Handbook on the Gospel of Mark for parallel or similar verses.