Question: What is the Hebrew equivalent of the name Calvary?
Answer: Golgotha. (John 19:17)
Comments: Calvary (Luke 23:33) and Golgotha (Matthew 27:33, Mark 15:22, John 19:17) are the English language names given to the hill ascribed to Jesus' crucifixion. They mean "place of the skull". It has been speculated that it was given the name because it was a knoll rounded like a bare skull.
Golgoltha represents the Greek transliteration of the Aramaic word Gulgaltha, which equates to the Hebrew Gulgoleth (Numbers 1:2; I Chronicles 23:3, 23:24; II Kings 9:35), meaning "a skull."
"Calvary" appears only in the KJV and NKJV's translation of Luke 23:33. The word "calvary" is not from the original Greek versions, but is a gloss of the Latin name Calvaria from the Vulgate,.
They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha. (John 19:17, NASB)
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