Calvary in the Bible

Meaning: the place of a skull

Exact Match

And He was bearing His cross. And He went out into a place called Calvary, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

Verse ConceptsCrucifixion, Of ChristBackCalvaryCarrying The CrossSkullsBurying placesThe Crosscrusades

Thematic Bible



And, coming into a place called Golgotha, that is to say, Skull-place,

And they bring him unto the Golgotha place, which is, being translated, Skull-place.

And, when they came into the place which was called Skull, there, they crucified him; and the evil-doers, one indeed on the right hand, and the other on the left.

And, bearing for himself the cross, he went forth unto the so-called Skull-place, which is named, in Hebrew, Golgotha;


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