STRONGS G1115:
Γολγοθά [Tr WH, or
-θᾶ R G L T (see
Tdf. Proleg., p. 102; Kautzsch, p. 10); also
-όθ L WH marginal reading in
John 19:17; accusative
-ᾶν Tdf. in
Mark 15:22 (WH
-άν, see their Appendix, p. 160), elsewhere indeclinable, Winers Grammar, 61 (60)],
Golgotha, Chaldean
גֻּלְגָלְתָא, Heb.
גֻּלְגֹּלֶת (from
גָּלַל to roll),
i. e. κρανίον,
a skull [Latin
calvaria], the name of a place outside of Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified; so called, apparently, because its form resembled a skull:
Matthew 27:33;
Mark 15:22;
John 19:17. Cf.
Tobler, Golgatha. St. Gall. 1851;
Furrer in Schenkel ii. 506ff;
Keim, Jesus von Naz. iii. 404f; [
Porter in Alex.'s Kitto under the word;
F. Howe, The true Site of Calvary, N. Y., 1871].
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