Strong G4061περιτομή

circumcision

Transliteration
peritomē
Pronunciation
per-it-om-ay'
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G4059; circumcision (the rite the condition or the people literally or figuratively): - X circumcised circumcision.

Detailed definition

περι-τομή, -ῆς, ἡ
(περιτέμνω), [in LXX: Gen.17:13, Exo.4:25-26 (מוּל ni., מוּלָה), Jer.11:16 *;]
circumcision;
__(a) of the rite itself : Jhn.7:22-23 Act.7:8, Rom.4:11, Gal.5:11, Php.3:5;
__(b) of the state of circumcision: Rom.2:25-28 3:1, 1Co.7:19, Gal.5:6 6:15, Col.3:11; ἐν π. ὤν, Rom.4:10;
__(with) by meton., π. = οἱ περιτμηθέντες, the circumcised: Rom.3:30 4:9, 12 15:8, Gal.2:7-9, Eph.2:11; οἱ ἐκ τῆς π., of Jews, Rom.4:12; of Jewish Christians, Act.11:2, Gal.2:12, Tit.1:10; οἱ ἐκ π. πιστοί, Act.10:45; οἱ ὄντες ἐκ π., Col.4:11 Metaphorical, Rom.2:29, Col.2:11, Php.3:3.†
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In the Bible

Strong G4061 appears in 32 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • circumcision31
  • circumcise1

First verses

  1. John 7:22
    Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
  2. John 7:23
    If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
  3. Acts 7:8
    And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
  4. Acts 10:45
    And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
  5. Acts 11:2
    And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,
  6. Romans 2:25
    For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
  7. Romans 2:26
    Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
  8. Romans 2:27
    And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
  9. Romans 2:28
    For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
  10. Romans 2:29
    But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
  11. Romans 3:1
    What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
  12. Romans 3:30
    Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
  13. Romans 4:9
    Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
  14. Romans 4:10
    How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
  15. Romans 4:11
    And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
  16. Romans 4:12
    And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
  17. Romans 15:8
    Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
  18. 1 Corinthians 7:19
    Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
  19. Galatians 2:7
    But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
  20. Galatians 2:8
    (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
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Detailed Greek dictionary
περιτομ-ή, ἡ,
circumcision, [LXX+2nd c.BC+ (LXX.Gen.17.13, 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus 61, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 16.2.37 (_plural_), 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.450, +others, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.82: _metaphorically_, π. καρδίας NT.Rom.2.29.)]
II section of a machine, ἡ κάτω π. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Abhandlungen der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Phil.-hist. Klasse)” 173.4.)]
III circular incision, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Heliodorus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 45.6.9, 45.7.3, 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 15.8.)]