Calvary
a heap of skulls; something skull-shaped...
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Also called GOLGOTHA, place where Jesus was crucified
Mt 27:33; Mr 15:22; Lu 23:33; Joh 19:17...
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only in Luke 23:33, the Latin name Calvaria, which was used as
a
translation of the Greek word _Kranion_, by which the
Hebrew
word _Gulgoleth_ was interpreted, "the place of a
skull." It
probably took this name from its shape, being a
hillock or low,
rounded, bare elevation somewhat in the form of a
human skull.
It is nowhere in Scripture...
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(Luke 23:33). The Latin translation of the Hebrew GOLGOTHA,
"the place of a skull," a place of executions. A fit place; in
death's stronghold the Lord of life gave death his deathblow
through death (Hebrews 2:14). There is no "mount," such as
popular phraseology associates with Calvary. It was simply "a
low, rounded bore hill" outside the N. g...
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And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary,
there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the
right hand, and the other on the left....
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