Why Golgotha? Because of רֹאשׁ

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Giuseppe
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Why Golgotha? Because of רֹאשׁ

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http://biblehub.com/hebrew/7218.htm

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◄ 7218. rosh ►
Strong's Concordance
rosh: head
Original Word: רֹאשׁ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: rosh
Phonetic Spelling: (roshe)
Short Definition: head
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
head
NASB Translation
bands (1), beginning (11), beheaded* (1), best (1), best things (1), bodyguard* (1), captains (3), census (7), chief (35), chief men (6), chiefs (3), companies (7), company (5), corner (1), count (1), distant (1), divisions (1), ends (2), every (1), faced* (1), favor* (1), finest (2), first (12), full (2), hair (3), head (256), heads (129), laughingstock* (1), leader (4), leaders (8), leading man (1), leading men (2), masters (1), released* (1), ridge (2), rivers (1), sum (2), summit (7), themselves (1), top (51), topmost (2), topmost* (1), tops (15).

The same word means "head" and "beginning". The term appears as root in BERESHIT "in the beginning".

So Rev 13:8 reveals why Jesus had to be crucified just in the Place of the Skull.

why did not I realize it before?

:cheers:
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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Re: Why Golgotha? Because of רֹאשׁ

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Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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Re: Why Golgotha? Because of רֹאשׁ

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15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel.”

(Genesis 3:15)

Hence, who invented the crucifixion on the Golgotha, had in mind a Jesus "born by woman, born under the Law": he couldn't be someone as Marcion.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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Re: Why Golgotha? Because of "Galba-Otho"

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"Gabbatha" <=> "Golgotha" <=> "Galba-Otho"
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Re: Why Golgotha? Because of רֹאשׁ

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I Chronicle 10:8-10
And it happened that on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. And they stripped him and took his head and his weapons, and they sent them throughout the land of the Philistines to bring news to their idols and the nation. And they put his weapons in the temple of their gods, and they fastened his skull (gulgōleṯ/גולגולת) to the temple of Dagon.

Golgotha = The Place of the Skull = The Place of the Beheaded
Dagon = Oannes = Yohanan
Golgotha = The Place of John the Baptist's Skull
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