Bible Names

Golgotha: meaning of the name

Golgotha means “a heap of skulls; something skull-shaped.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Golgotha in Hebrew and Greek

Γολγοθᾶ G1115

Golgothâ — the skull; Golgotha, a knoll near Jerusalem

of Chaldee origin (compare H01538);

Places named Golgotha

Golgotha in Scripture

“Golgotha” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Matthew 27:33

    And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,

  • Mark 15:22

    And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.

  • John 19:17

    And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: