Mark 15:22

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and they bring him to the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, `Place of a skull;'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ φέρουσιν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ Γολγοθᾶ τόπον, ὅ ἐστιν, μεθερμηνευόμενον, Κρανίου τόπος.

Transliteration

And they-pherousin him to Golgotha topon, which estin, methermēneuomenon, Kraniou topos.

Grammar Details

• *pherousin*: verb, present, active, indicative, 3rd, plural - they bring/carry
• *Golgotha*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - Golgotha
• *topon*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - place
• *estin*: verb, present, active, indicative, 3rd, singular - is
• *methermēneuomenon*: participle, present, passive, nominative, neuter, singular - being translated/interpreted
• *Kraniou*: noun, genitive, neuter, singular - of a skull
• *topos*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - place

Word Meanings

• *pherousin*: bring/carry/lead
• *Golgotha*: Golgotha (Aramaic term)
• *topon*: place/location/site
• *methermēneuomenon*: being translated/being interpreted
• *Kraniou*: of a skull/of cranium
• *topos*: place/location/site

Referenced Verses

• Matt 27:33-44 : 33 and having come to a place called Golgotha, that is called Place of a Skull, 34 they gave him to drink vinegar mixed with gall, and having tasted, he would not drink. 35 And having crucified him, they divided his garments, casting a lot, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the prophet, `They divided my garments to themselves, and over my vesture they cast a lot;' 36 and sitting down, they were watching him there, 37 and they put up over his head, his accusation written, `This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.' 38 Then crucified with him are two robbers, one on the right hand, and one on the left, 39 and those passing by were speaking evil of him, wagging their heads, 40 and saying, `Thou that art throwing down the sanctuary, and in three days building `it', save thyself; if Son thou art of God, come down from the cross.' 41 And in like manner also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said, 42 `Others he saved; himself he is not able to save! If he be King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe him; 43 he hath trusted on God, let Him now deliver him, if He wish him, because he said -- Son of God I am;' 44 with the same also the robbers, who were crucified with him, were reproaching him.
• Luke 23:27-38 : 27 And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him, 28 and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children; 29 for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck; 30 then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; -- 31 for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?' 32 And there were also others -- two evil-doers -- with him, to be put to death; 33 and when they came to the place that is called Skull, there they crucified him and the evil-doers, one on the right hand and one on the left. 34 And Jesus said, `Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot. 35 And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.' 36 And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him, 37 and saying, `If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.' 38 And there was also a superscription written over him, in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew, `This is the King of the Jews.'
• John 19:17-27 : 17 and bearing his cross, he went forth to the place called `Place' of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha; 18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on this side, and on that side, and Jesus in the midst. 19 And Pilate also wrote a title, and put `it' on the cross, and it was written, `Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews;' 20 this title, therefore, read many of the Jews, because the place was nigh to the city where Jesus was crucified, and it was having been written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Roman. 21 The chief priests of the Jews said, therefore, to Pilate, `Write not -- The king of the Jews, but that one said, I am king of the Jews;' 22 Pilate answered, `What I have written, I have written.' 23 The soldiers, therefore, when they did crucify Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to each soldier a part, also the coat, and the coat was seamless, from the top woven throughout, 24 they said, therefore, to one another, `We may not rend it, but cast a lot for it, whose it shall be;' that the Writing might be fulfilled, that is saying, `They divided my garments to themselves, and upon my raiment they did cast a lot;' the soldiers, therefore, indeed, did these things. 25 And there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene; 26 Jesus, therefore, having seen `his' mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, `Woman, lo, thy son;' 27 afterward he saith to the disciple, `Lo, thy mother;' and from that hour the disciple took her to his own `home'.