Bible Names

Calvary: meaning of the name

Calvary means “the place of a skull.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Calvary in Hebrew and Greek

κρανίον G2898

kraníon — a skull ("cranium")

diminutive of a derivative of the base of G2768 (κέρας);

Calvary in Scripture

“Calvary” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Luke 23:33

    And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.