Accidama

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 33

Accidama (Chaldee, 'field of blood'), the name given to the potter's field bought by the priests, as a burial-place for strangers, with the money which Judas had received for betraying Jesus, and which, in the horror of his repentance, he flung at their feet before hanging himself.

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