Golgotha
gol'-go-tha (Golgotha, from "a skull"): In three references
(Mt 27:33; Mk 15:22; Jn 19:17) it is interpreted to mean
kraniou topos, "the place of a skull." In Lk 23:33 the King
James Version it is called "Calvary," but in the Revised
Version (British and American) simply "The skull." From the
New Testament we may gather that it was outside the...
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The Aramaic name of the place where Jesus was crucified
Mt 27:33; Mr 15:22; Joh 19:17...
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(skull), the Hebrew name of the spot at which our Lord was
crucified. Mt 27:33; Mr 15:22; Joh 19:17 By these three
evangelists it is interpreted to mean the "place of a skull."
Two explanations of the name are given: (1) that it was a spot
where executions ordinarily took place, and therefore abounded
in skulls; or(2) it may come from the look...
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the common name of the spot where Jesus was crucified. It is
interpreted by the evangelists as meaning "the place
of a skull"
(Matt. 27:33; Mark 15:22; John 19:17). This name
represents in
Greek letters the Aramaic word Gulgaltha, which is
the Hebrew
Gulgoleth (Num. 1:2; 1 Chr. 23:3, 24; 2 Kings 9:35),
meaning "a
skull." It is identical wi...
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Aramaic, Gulgaltha, Hebrew Gulgoleth. (See CALVARY, Latin)
Greek (Luke 23:33) Cranion, "a skull"; "Calvary" is from
Vulgate The "place" of our Lord's crucifixion and burial,
not called in the Gospels a mount, as it is now commonly.
"In the place where He was crucified was a garden, and in
the garden a new sepulchre, ... hewn in stone wherein n...
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And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called [the
place] of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:...
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And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is
to say, a place of a skull,...
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And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being
interpreted, The place of a skull....
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