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Shane Rosenthal's avatar

Correct. The most important passage on this subject is 2Sam 15. David ascends the Mt. of Olives to the summit, which in Hebrew is called the "rosh." Later when this was translated into Greek, this word was left untranslated, so basically Greek characters were used to spell "rosh," which indicates that the name of the top of the Mt. of Olives in Hebrew was "The place of the Head / Peak / Summit." So, Golgotha is the name of this place when you translate to Aramaic.

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David, Numbers 1:2 says “Take a census (rosh) of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head (gulgolet). The word rosh in this sentence refers to a "head count" and the word gulgolet, which here means "top of the head," is the Hebrew equivalent of the Aramaic word, "golgotha." As to your first question, I don't make much of the Goliath legend.

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