[Guyin4Os]

Golgotha means “skull” in Hebrew and in many cognate languages, including Aramaic. It is translated into the Latin “Calvary,” which also means skull. What we have in this article is a fanciful hermeneutIc that has no basis in the text. I like it, but it doesn’t work.

[Verginius Rufus]

Matthew 27.33, Mark 15.22, Luke 23.33, and John 19.17 all have "Calvariae" in the Latin Vulgate (with the word locus or locum meaning place: "place of Calvary"). All except Luke also include the form Golgotha.

Calvary is just the English rendition of Calvaria.

Latin calvus means "bald." Calva means "the bald scalp of a head."