aceldama

noun

1. the place near Jerusalem purchased with the bribe Judas took for betraying Jesus. Acts 1:18, 19.
2. any place of slaughter and bloodshed.

noun

1. New Testament the place near Jerusalem that was bought with the 30 pieces of silver paid to Judas for betraying Jesus (Matthew 27:8; Acts 1:19)

late 14c., potter’s field near Jerusalem purchased with the blood-money given to Judas Iscariot, literally “place of bloodshed,” from Greek Akeldama, from an Aramaic phrase akin to Syriac haqal dema “the field of blood.”