Where do you get Calvary from Golgotha?

Question

Apparantly they are supposed to be same place. Golgotha was Aramaic for skull because the area supposedly looked like a skull (I don't get the connection from any pics I've seen but to each their own). So where does the name Calvary come from out of that? It's not Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, etc.

Answer 1

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Calvary
Calvary
(kăl´vrē) [Lat.,=a skull] or Golgotha (gŏl´gth) [Heb.,=a skull], in the Gospels, place where Jesus was crucified, outside what was then the wall of Jerusalem


Calvary (Golgotha) is the English-language name given to the hill on which Jesus was crucified. The hill is described as outside Jerusalem, but its location is not certain. Calvaria in Latin, Κρανιου Τοπος (Kraniou Topos) in Greek and Gûlgaltâ in Aramaic all mean 'skull', referring to a hill or plateau containing a pile of skulls or to a geographic feature resembling a skull.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary

The word Calvary (Lat. Calvaria) means "a skull". Calvaria and the Gr. Kranion are equivalents for the original Golgotha. The ingenious conjecture that Golgotha may be a contraction for Gol Goatha and may accordingly have signified "mount of execution", and been related to Goatha in Jer., xxxi, 39, has found scarcely any supporters. The diminutive monticulus (little mount) was coupled with the name A.D. 333 by the "Pilgrim of Bordeaux".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03191a.htm

Apperently, Calvary is Latin for skull.

Answer 2

Luke 23:33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary (kranion), there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

kranion - Diminutive of a derivative of the base of G2768; a skull (“cranium”): - Calvary, skull.

Four reasons have been suggested for the name Golgotha or “skull”: (1) That it was a spot where skulls were to be found lying about and probably, therefore, a public place of execution. This tradition apparently originates with Jerome (346-420 ad), who refers to (3), to condemn it, and says that “outside the city and without the gate there are places wherein the heads of condemned criminals are cut off and which have obtained the name of Calvary - that is, of the beheaded.”

This view has been adopted by several later writers. Against it may be urged that there is no shadow of evidence that there was any special place for Jewish executions in the 1st century, and that, if there were, the corpses could have been allowed burial (Mat_27:58; Joh_19:38), in conformity with Jewish law (Deu_21:23) and with normal custom (Josephus, BJ, IV, v, 2). (2) That the name was due to the skull-like shape of the hill - a modern popular view. No early or Greek writer suggests such an idea, and there is no evidence from the Gospels that the Crucifixion occurred on a raised place at all. Indeed Epiphanius (4th century) expressly says: “There is nothing to be seen on the place resembling this name; for it is not situated upon a height that it should be called (the place) of a skull, answering to the place of the head in the human body.” It is true that the tradition embodied in the name Mons Calvary appears as early as the 4th century, and is materialized in the traditional site of the Crucifixion in the church of the Holy Sepulcher, but that the hill was skull-like in form is quite a modern idea. Guthe combines (2) and (3) and considers that a natural skull-like elevation came to be considered, by some folklore ideas, to be the skull of the first man. One of the strangest ideas is that of the late General Gordon, who thought that the resemblance to a skull lay in the contours of the ground as laid down in the ordinance survey map of Jerusalem. (3) That the name is due to an ancient pre-Christian tradition that the skull of Adam was found there. The first mention of this is by Origen (185-253 ad), who himself lived in Jerusalem 20 years. He writes: “I have received a tradition to the effect that the body of Adam, the first man, was buried upon the spot where Christ was crucified,” etc. This tradition was afterward referred to by Athanasius, Epiphanius, Basil of Caesarea, Chrysostom and other later writers. The tomb and skull of Adam, still pointed out in an excavated chamber below the traditional Calvary, marks the survival of this tradition on the spot. This is by far the most ancient explanation of the name Golgotha and, in spite of the absurdity of the original tradition about Adam, is probably the true one.

Answer 3

The names Golgotha (Aramaic) and Calvary (English - from Latin) confer with the identical hill. Golgotha was once so named due to the fact that it manner "the location of the cranium", regarding the crucifixions which happened there, and the probability that Adam's cranium is buried there. It was once referred to as Golgotha lengthy earlier than the crucifixion of Christ. When Christ was once crucified there the title grew to become Calvary to Christians due to the fact that of the anguish which occurred there, within the location of our having to undergo. To the secular international, each phrases are interchangeable, however to Christians, best the phrase Calvary is utilized in connection with the hill. Even secularists avoid the time period Golgotha in these days.

Answer 4

'Calvaria' is Latin for skull.
A location that was proposed as the site of the impalement of Jesus is a promontory 230 m NE of the Damascus Gate, now known as Gordon’s Calvary.
It was suggested in 1842 as the true location of Golgotha.
In 1883 the location was endorsed by General C. G. Gordon, a British military hero. The identification was based on conjecture.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1986, p. 50.

Answer 5

1. Golgotha, the place where Jesus was crucified. Luke 23:33.
2. A sculptured representation of the Crucifixion, usually erected in the open air.
3. An experience or occasion of extreme suffering, esp. mental suffering.
Jesus Christ suffered on the cross for you and me.Our sins were paid in full when he gave the ultimate and perfect sacrifice.

Answer 6

Calvary, (Calvaria) is latin and does indeed mean skull.

Answer 7

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