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== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_77028" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_77028" /> == | ||
<div> '''1: | <div> '''1: '''''Κρανίον''''' ''' (Strong'S #2898 Noun Neuter kranion kran-ee'-on ) </div> <p> kara, "a head" (Eng., "cranium"), a diminutive of kranon, denotes "a skull" (Latin calvaria), Matthew 27:33; Mark 15:22; Luke 23:33; John 19:17 . The corresponding [[Aramaic]] word is Golgotha (Heb. gulgoleth; see Judges 9:53; 2 Kings 9:35 ). </p> | ||
== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69814" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69814" /> == | ||
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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34883" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34883" /> == | ||
<p> ( Luke 23:33). The Latin translation of the Hebrew | <p> ( Luke 23:33). The Latin translation of the Hebrew '''''Gοlgοτηα''''' , "the place of a skull," a place of executions. A fit place; in death's stronghold the Lord of life gave death his deathblow through death ( Hebrews 2:14). There is no "mount," such as popular phraseology associates with Calvary. It was simply "a low, rounded bore hill" outside the N. gate of Jerusalem (Ewald, Gesch. Chronicles, 434, quoted in Ellicott's Life of our Lord.) </p> | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_97264" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_97264" /> == | ||
