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Definition of Golgotha
1. Noun. A hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
Definition of Golgotha
1. n. Calvary. See the Note under Calvary.
Definition of Golgotha
1. Proper noun. (biblical) The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified. ¹
2. Proper noun. At Oxbridge colleges in the 18th and 19th centuries, a slang term for the rooms of the heads of the colleges (i.e. a pun on 'the place of the skulls or heads'). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Golgotha
1. a place of burial [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Golgotha
Literary usage of Golgotha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mercersburg Review by Reformed Church in the United States Publications Board, German Reformed Church in the United States (1857)
"BETHLEHEM AND golgotha. rr.OM THE GERMAN OF RUECKERT. In Bethlehem the Lord of
glory, Who brought us life, first drew his breath, On golgotha, ..."
2. Sermons by Newman Hall, Augustinus, (1868)
"And they bring- htm unto the place golgotha" — Mark xv. 22. JESUS to golgotha?
The perfectly pure One —He *f who was holy, harmless, undefiled, ..."
3. The Mercersburg Quarterly Review by Alumni Association, Pa.) Marshall College (Mercersburg, Franklin and Marshall College (1857)
"BETHLEHEM AND golgotha. FROM THE GERMAN OF RUECKERT. In Bethlehem the Lord of
glory, Who brought us life, first drew his breath, On golgotha, O bloody story ..."
4. The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula by Carl Ritter, William Leonard Gage (1866)
"DISCUSSION V. THE CHRISTIAN QUARTER OF JERUSALEM, WITH golgotha AND THE CHURCH
OF TUE HOLY SEPULCHRE. It only remains that I should speak of the north-west ..."
5. The Psalms and Hymns: With the Doctrinal Standards and Liturgy of the by Reformed Church in America, Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (U.S.) (1860)
"GO TO golgotha. 1 GO to golgotha and weep With the suffering Son of God, And behold,
... 2 Go to golgotha, and see All the heavens in sackcloth hung, ..."
6. Notes on the Gospels, critical and explanatory by Melancthon Williams Jacobus (1862)
"33 And when they were come unto a place called golgotha, that is to ... golgotha—'
a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew ..."
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