Akeldama

Also known as Aceldama, Hakeldama

thumb|200px|right|Aceldama: St. Onuphrius Monastery. Akeldama (Greek: Ἁκελδαμά or Ἁκελδαμάχ, Aramaic: חקל דמא or 𐡇𐡒𐡋 𐡃𐡌𐡀 ''Ḥaqel D'ma, "field of blood"; Hebrew: חֲקֵל דָּמָא ; Arabic: حقل الدم, Ḥaqel Ad-dam'') is the Aramaic name for a place in Jerusalem associated with Judas Iscariot, one of the original twelve apostles of Jesus.

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Cemetery.name: Akeldama
Cemetery.native_name: 𐡇𐡒𐡋 𐡃𐡌𐡀
Cemetery.image: חקל דמא, מבט מגשר הסינמטק.JPG
Cemetery.abandoned: <!-- or
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Cemetery.location: Jerusalem
Cemetery.type: Potter's field
Cemetery.owner: St. Onuphrius Monastery

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Commons category: Aceldama
Commons gallery: Aceldama
inception: 1892-01-01
street address: גיא בן הינום

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Variant transliterations
New Testament connection
Identification
History
Crusader period
Ottoman period
The Akeldama tombs
See also
References
External links

thumb|200px|right|Aceldama: St. Onuphrius Monastery. Akeldama (Greek: Ἁκελδαμά or Ἁκελδαμάχ, Aramaic: חקל דמא or 𐡇𐡒𐡋 𐡃𐡌𐡀 ''Ḥaqel D'ma, "field of blood"; Hebrew: חֲקֵל דָּמָא ; Arabic: حقل الدم, Ḥaqel Ad-dam) is the Aramaic name for a place in Jerusalem associated with Judas Iscariot, one of the original twelve apostles of Jesus.

==Variant transliterations== Most English-language versions of the Bible transliterate the term as Akeldama (e.g. American Standard Version (ASV), English Standard Version (ESV), Good News Translation (GNT), Modern English Version (MEV), and New International Version (NIV)) or as Akel Dama (New King James Version (NKJV) and 1599 Geneva Bible). Aceldama is used by the King James Version (KJV), Darby Bible and Wycliffe Bible. Hakeldama is used by the Common English Bible (CEB), New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) and Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB), whilst the Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) uses Hakel-D'ma. The Jerusalem Bible has Hakeldama but uses the English translation Bloody Acre in place of Field of Blood, which is otherwise consistently used as the English translation. In Greek, it is called Ἁκελδαμάχ (Hakeldamach'').