Golgotha
Golgotha is the named place to which Jesus is brought or goes while carrying the cross, identified in the verses as Skull or Skull Place.
Golgotha is used consistently as the name of a place: Jesus is brought there in Mark 15:22 and arrives there in Matthew 27:33, while John 19:17 says he goes out to that place carrying the cross; the verses identify it as Skull or Skull Place.
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Named place identified as Skull · dominant
The accusative forms occur with movement to the place in Mark 15:22 and Matthew 27:33; in Mark 15:22 the APB renders, “they bring him to the place Golgotha,” and Matthew 27:33 says they had come to the place called Golgotha. In John 19:17, the nominative form names “the place called Skull,” where the APB adds that it “is called Golgotha in Hebrew,” as Jesus goes out carrying the cross.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB retains the name “Golgotha” in all three verses and identifies the place as “Skull,” “Skull Place,” or “Place of a Skull.” These explanatory phrases describe the verse-level presentation rather than a separate lexical rendering.