Golgotha Definition

gŏlgə-thə
noun
The place where Jesus was crucified; Calvary: Mark 15:22
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(biblical) The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.

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(slang, at Oxbridge colleges in the 18th and 19th centuries) The rooms of the heads of the colleges (a pun on "the place of the skulls / heads").
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Origin of Golgotha

  • From the Ancient Greek Γολγοθᾶ (Golgotha) from the Aramaic גּלגּלת.

    From Wiktionary

  • After Golgotha

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Golgotha Sentence Examples

  • The site of Golgotha and of the the Holy Sepulchre, of the manger or of the home at Bethany, were to them of no special moment in comparison with the one all-important fact that " Christ was risen."

  • After the precious relics together with the bones of Adam had been saved in the ark, they were transported by Shem and Melchizedek to Golgotha under the guidance of an angel.$ The tripartite narrative which is known as the Romance of Julian (the Apostate) has no claim to be regarded as an historical document.

  • It may seem surprising that there is no mention of Golgotha and the Sepulchre.

  • A legend relates how one-fourth of the European inhabitants perished in twelve months, and during seventy years the mortality was so great that the name of Calcutta, derived from the village of Kalikata, was identified by mariners with Golgotha, the place of a skull.

  • Mel Gibson howls aloud in the film to express the anguish of the sacrifice of Golgotha.

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