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Lexicon :: Strong's G4059 - peritemnō

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περιτέμνω
Transliteration
peritemnō (Key)
Pronunciation
per-ee-tem'-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From περί (G4012) and the base of τομός (G5114)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:72,831

Strong’s Definitions

περιτέμνω peritémnō, per-ee-tem'-no; from G4012 and the base of G5114; to cut around, i.e. (specially) to circumcise:—circumcise.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's G4059 in the following manner: circumcise (18x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x
The KJV translates Strong's G4059 in the following manner: circumcise (18x).

  1. to cut around

  2. to circumcise

    1. cut off one's prepuce (used of that well known rite by which not only the male children of the Israelites, on the eighth day after birth, but subsequently also "proselytes of righteousness" were consecrated to Jehovah and introduced into the number of his people)

    2. to get one's self circumcised, present one's self to be circumcised, receive circumcision

    3. since by the rite of circumcision a man was separated from the unclean world and dedicated to God, the word is transferred to denote the extinguishing of lusts and the removal of sins

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
περιτέμνω peritémnō, per-ee-tem'-no; from G4012 and the base of G5114; to cut around, i.e. (specially) to circumcise:—circumcise.
STRONGS G4059:
περιτέμνω (Ionic περιτάμνω); 2 aorist περιέτεμον; passive, present περιτέμνομαι; perfect participle περιτετμημένος; 1 aorist περιετμήθην; (from Hesiod down); the Sept. chiefly for מוּל; to cut around (cf. περί, III. 1): τινα, to circumcise, cut off one's prepuce (used of that well-known rite by which not only the male children of the Israelites, on the eighth day after birth, but subsequently also 'proselytes of righteousness' were consecrated to Jehovah and introduced into the number of his people; (cf. BB. DD. under the word ; Oehler's O. T. Theol. (edited by Day) §§ 87, 88; Müller, Barnabasbrief, p. 227f)), Luke 1:59; Luke 2:21; John 7:22; Acts 7:8; Acts 15:5; Acts 16:3; Acts 21:21; of the same rite, Diodorus 1, 28; passive and middle to get oneself circumcised, present oneself to be circumcised, receive circumcision (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 38, 3): Acts 15:1, 24 Rec.; 1 Corinthians 7:18; Galatians 2:3; Galatians 5:2; Galatians 6:12f; with τά αἰδοῖα added, Herodotus 2, 36 and 104; Josephus, Antiquities 1, 10, 5; contra Apion 1, 22. Since by the rite of circumcision a man was separated from the unclean world and dedicated to God, the verb is transferred to denote the extinguishing of lusts and the removal of sins, Colossians 2:11, cf. Jeremiah 4:4; Deuteronomy 10:16, and ecclesiastical writings (see Lightfoot on Philippians 3:3).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
10:16
Jeremiah
4:4
Luke
1:59; 2:21
John
7:22
Acts
7:8; 15:1; 15:5; 15:24; 16:3; 21:21
1 Corinthians
7:18
Galatians
2:3; 5:2; 6:12
Philippians
3:3
Colossians
2:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4059 matches the Greek περιτέμνω (peritemnō),
which occurs 30 times in 28 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:10 - And this is the covenant which thou shalt fully keep between me and you, and between thy seed after thee for their generations; every male of you shall be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:11 - And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:12 - And the child of eight days old shall be circumcised by you, every male throughout your generations, and the servant born in the house and he that is bought with money, of every son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:13 - He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with money shall be surely circumcised, and my covenant shall be on your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:14 - And the uncircumcised male, who shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from its family, for he has broken my covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - And Abraam took Ismael his son, and all his home-born servants, and all those bought with money, and every male of the men in the house of Abraam, and he circumcised their foreskins in the time of that day, according as God spoke to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:24 - And Abraam was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:25 - And Ismael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26 - And at the period of that day, Abraam was circumcised, and Ismael his son,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:27 - and all the men of his house, both those born in the house, and those bought with money of foreign nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:4 - And Abraam circumcised Isaac on the eighth day, as God commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:15 - Only on these terms will we conform to you, and dwell among you, if ye also will be as we are, in that every male of you be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:17 - But if ye will not hearken to us to be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22 - Only on these terms will the men conform to us to dwell with us so as to be one people, if every male of us be circumcised, as they also are circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - And all that went in at the gate of their city hearkened to Emmor and Sychem his son, and they were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin every male.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:25 - And Sepphora having taken a stone cut off the foreskin of her son, and fell at his feet and said, The blood of the circumcision of my son is staunched:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:44

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:44 - And every slave or servant bought with money—him thou shalt circumcise, and then shall he eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - And if any proselyte shall come to you to keep the passover to the Lord, thou shalt circumcise every male of him, and then shall he approach to sacrifice it, and he shall be even as the original inhabitant of the land; no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:3 - And on the eighth day she shall circumcise the flesh of his foreskin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:16 - [fn]Therefore ye shall circumcise the hardness of your heart, and ye shall not harden your neck.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - And about this time the Lord said to Joshua, Make thee stone knives of sharp stone, and sit down and circumcise the children of Israel the second time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 - And Joshua made sharp knives of stone, and circumcised the children of Israel at the place called the “Hill of Foreskins.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:5 - all these Joshua circumcised; for forty and two years Israel wandered in the wilderness of Mabdaris—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:7 - And in their place he raised up their sons, whom Joshua circumcised, because they were uncircumcised, having been born by the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:8 - And when they had been circumcised they rested [fn]continuing there in the camp till they were healed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:17 - in every city and province wherever the ordinance was published: wherever the proclamation took place, the Jews had joy and gladness, feasting and mirth: and many of the Gentiles were circumcised, and became Jews, for fear of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 - Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, ye men of Juda, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:25 - (LXX 9:24) Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will visit upon all the circumcised their uncircumcision;
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