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Lexicon :: Strong's G4061 - peritomē

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περιτομή
Transliteration
peritomē (Key)
Pronunciation
per-it-om-ay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TDNT Reference: 6:72,831

Strong’s Definitions

περιτομή peritomḗ, per-it-om-ay'; from G4059; circumcision (the rite, the condition or the people, literally or figuratively):—X circumcised, circumcision.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x

The KJV translates Strong's G4061 in the following manner: circumcision (35x), circumcised (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x
The KJV translates Strong's G4061 in the following manner: circumcision (35x), circumcised (1x).

  1. circumcised

    1. the act or rite of circumcision, "they of the circumcision" is a term used of the Jews

      1. of Christians gathered from among the Jews

      2. the state of circumcision

    2. metaph.

      1. of Christians separated from the unclean multitude and truly consecrated to God

      2. the extinction of passions and the removal of spiritual impurity

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
περιτομή peritomḗ, per-it-om-ay'; from G4059; circumcision (the rite, the condition or the people, literally or figuratively):—X circumcised, circumcision.
STRONGS G4061:
περιτομή, περιτομῆς, ἡ (περιτέμνω), circumcision (on which see περιτέμνω);
a. properly,
α. the act or rite of circumcision: John 7:22; Acts 7:8; Romans 4:11; Galatians 5:11; Philippians 3:5; οἱ ἐκ τῆς περιτομῆς (see ἐκ, II. 7), the circumcised, they of the circumcision, used of Jews, Romans 4:12; of Christians gathered from among the Jews, Acts 11:2; Galatians 2:12; Titus 1:10; οἱ ὄντες ἐκ περιτομῆς, Colossians 4:11.
β. the state of circumcision, the being circumcised: Romans 2:25-28; Romans 3:1; 1 Corinthians 7:19; Galatians 5:6; Galatians 6:15; Colossians 3:11; ἐν περιτομή ὤν, circumcised, Romans 4:10.
γ. by metonymy, 'the circumcision' for οἱ περιτμηθέντες the circumcised, i. e. Jews: Romans 3:30; Romans 4:9, 12; Romans 15:8; Galatians 2:7-9; Ephesians 2:11; οἱ ἐκ περιτομῆς πιστοί, Christian converts from among the Jews, Jewish Christians, Acts 10:45.
b. metaphorically,
α. of Christians: (ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν) ἡ περιτομή, separated from the unclean multitude and truly consecrated to God, Philippians 3:3 ((where see Lightfoot)).
β. ἡ περιτομή ἀχειροποίητος, the extinction of the passions and the removal of spiritual impurity (see περιτέμνω, at the end), Colossians 2:11a; ἡ περιτομή καρδίας in Romans 2:29 denotes the same thing; περιτομή τοῦ Χριστοῦ, of which Christ is the author, Colossians 2:11b. (The noun περιτομή occurs three times in the O. T., viz. Genesis 17:13; Jeremiah 11:16; for מוּלָה, Exodus 4:26; besides in Philo, whose tract περί περιτομῆς is found in Mangey's edition 2, pp. 210-212 (Richter's edition 4, pp. 282-284); Josephus, Antiquities 1, 10, 5; (13, 11 at the end; contra Apion 2, 13, 1, 6); plural, Antiquities 1, 12, 2.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
17:13
Exodus
4:26
Jeremiah
11:16
John
7:22
Acts
7:8; 10:45; 11:2
Romans
2:25; 2:26; 2:27; 2:28; 2:29; 3:1; 3:30; 4:9; 4:10; 4:11; 4:12; 4:12; 15:8
1 Corinthians
7:19
Galatians
2:7; 2:8; 2:9; 2:12; 5:6; 5:11; 6:15
Ephesians
2:11
Philippians
3:3; 3:5
Colossians
2:11; 2:11; 3:11; 4:11
Titus
1:10

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Strong's Number G4061 matches the Greek περιτομή (peritomē),
which occurs 36 times in 32 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:22 - Moshe has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moshe, but of the fathers), and on the Shabbat you circumcise a boy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:23 - If a boy receives circumcision on the Shabbat, that the law of Moshe may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Shabbat?

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:8 - He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Avraham became the father of Yitzchak, and circumcised him the eighth day. Yitzchak became the father of Ya`akov, and Ya`akov became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:45

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:45 - They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Rock, because the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh was also poured out on the Goyim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:2 - When Rock had come up to Yerushalayim, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:25 - For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:26 - If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:27 - Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:28 - For he is not a Yehudi who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 2:29

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:29 - but he is a Yehudi who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:1 - Then what advantage does the Yehudi have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 3:30

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:30 - since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:9 - Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Avraham for righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:10 - How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:11 - He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:12 - The father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Avraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:8 - Now I say that Messiah has been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:19 - Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the mitzvot of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:7 - but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Rock with the Good News for the circumcision

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:8 - (for he who appointed Rock to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Goyim);

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:9 - and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, Ya`akov and Kefa and Yochanan, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Bar-Nabba the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Goyim, and they to the circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:12 - For before some people came from Ya`akov, he ate with the Goyim. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:6 - For in Messiah Yeshua neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:11 - But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling-block of the cross has been removed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 6:15 - For in Messiah Yeshua neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:11 - Therefore remember that once you, the Goyim in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:3 - For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Messiah Yeshua, and have no confidence in the flesh;

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:5 - circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Yisra'el, of the tribe of Binyamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Parush;

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:11 - in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Messiah;

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:11 - where there can't be Yevanit and Yehudi, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Messiah is all, and in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:11 - and Yeshua who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These are my only fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, men who have been a comfort to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Tit 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:10 - For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
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