noun · feminine
golgothas
Strong’sG1115
Golgotha
stem golgoth-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Γολγοθά (Rec. -θᾶ; WH, mg., Γολγόθ, Jo, l.c., Aram. גָּלְגָּלְתָּא = Heb. גֻּלְגֹּלֶת, LXX, κρανίον, Jg 9:53, II Ki 9:35); indecl. (exc. Mk 15:22, -άν),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1115 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgol-goth-ah'
the skull; Golgotha, a knoll near Jerusalem
Fromof Chaldee origin (compare );
King JamesGolgotha.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Golgotha, the place of the crucifixion:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | golgothas1×Γολγοθα | golgothais |
| object accusative | golgothan2×Γολγοθᾶν | golgothain |
| direct address vocative | golgothar | golgothair |
| of, belonging to genitive | golgothau | golgothaiu |
| to, for dative | golgotha | golgothai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
golgotha is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
golgothas“Golgotha”subjectnominative singular1×
John 19:17… legorōnton Kranieu Topon, hem legotō Hebraisti Golgothas,… Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
golgothan“Golgotha”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 27:33Kai ercharantois eis topon legorōnton Golgothan, hem atō Kranieu Topos legorōntos,… they came to a place called Golgotha, which means The Place of the …
Mark 15:22kai feralō auton epi ton Golgothan topon, hem atō methermēneuorōntem Kranieu Topos.… brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha, which means The Place of the …