Skull

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Κρανίον (Strong'S #2898 — Noun Neuter — kranion — kran-ee'-on )

Lat., cranium (akin to kara, "the head"), is used of the scene of the Crucifixion,  Matthew 27:33;  Mark 15:22;  John 19:17; in  Luke 23:33 , RV, "(the place which is called) The skull," AV, "Calvary" (from Latin calvaria, "a skull:" marg., "the place of a skull"). The locality has been identified by the traces of the resemblance of the hill to a "skull". In the Sept.,  Judges 9:53;  2—Kings 9:35 .

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) A covering for the head; a skullcap.

(2): ( n.) A sort of oar. See Scull.

(3): ( n.) A school, company, or shoal.

(4): ( n.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.

(5): ( n.) The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 2 Kings 9:35 (c) This peculiar incident may teach us the lesson that the thoughts and decisions of the wicked woman Jezebel remained to defile the people after she had gone from the scene. It may be that the palms of the hands remind us that the work which she did in persecuting the believers remained after she was unable to serve because of death.

King James Dictionary

Skull n.

1. The bone that forms the exterior of the head, and incloses the brain the brain-pan. It is composed of several parts united at the sutures. 2. A person.

Skulls that cannot teach and will not learn.

3. Skull, for skeal or school, of fish

Holman Bible Dictionary

Calvary

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

skul ( גּלגּלת , gulgōleth  ; κρανίον , kranı́on ): The Hebrew word, which is well known to Bible readers in its Aramaic-Greek form "Golgotha," expresses the more or less globular shape of the human skull, being derived from a root meaning "to roll." It is often translated in English Versions of the Bible by "head," "poll," etc. In the meaning "skull" it is found twice (  Judges 9:53;  2 Kings 9:35 ). In the New Testament the word is found only in connection with Golgotha (which see), "the place of a skull" ( Matthew 27:33;  Mark 15:22;  John 19:17 ), or "the skull" ( Luke 23:33 ).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( גֻּלְגֹּלֶת , Gulgoleth, so called from its Round form [ 2 Kings 9:35; "head,"  1 Chronicles 10:10; elsewhere "poll;" Κράνοιν ; the Lat. Cranium,  Matthew 27:33;  Mark 15:22;  Luke 23:33;  John 19:17]). (See Calvary).