Bible Names

Gabbatha: meaning of the name

Gabbatha means “high; elevated.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Gabbatha in Hebrew and Greek

γαββαθά G1042

gabbathá — the knoll; gabbatha, a vernacular term for the Roman tribunal in Jerusalem

of Chaldee origin (compare H01355);

Places named Gabbatha

Gabbatha in Scripture

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

  • John 19:13

    When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.