Word Summary
Golgotha: Golgotha, a hill near Jer
Original Word: ΓολγοθᾶTransliteration: Golgotha
Phonetic Spelling: (gol-goth-ah')
Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Short Definition: Golgotha, a hill near Jer
Meaning: Golgotha -- a hill near Jerusalem
Strong's Concordance
Golgotha.
Of Chaldee origin (compare gulgoleth); the skull; Golgotha, a knoll near Jerusalem -- Golgotha.
see HEBREW gulgoleth
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1115: ΓολγοθᾶΓολγοθᾶ (
Tr WH, or
Γολγοθᾶ R G L T (see
Tdf. Proleg., p. 102;
Kautzsch, p. 10); also
Γολγοθᾶ L WH marginal reading in
John 19:17; accusative
Γολγοθᾶν Tdf. in
Mark 15:22 (
WH Γολγοθᾶν, 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).