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Lexicon :: Strong's G4061 - peritomē

Aa
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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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

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.)
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:22 - Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:23 - If a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:8 - And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:45

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:45 - And the Jews of the faith, who had come with Peter, were full of wonder, because the Holy Spirit was given to the Gentiles,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:2 - And when Peter came to Jerusalem, those who kept the rule of circumcision had an argument with him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:25 - It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:26 - If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:27 - And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:28 - The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:29

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:1 - How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:30

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:30 - If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:9 - Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:10 - How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:11 - And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:12 - And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:8 - Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision to give effect to the undertakings given by God to the fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:19 - Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:7 - But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:8 - (Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles);

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:9 - When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:12 - For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:6 - Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:11 - But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 6:15 - For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:11 - For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:3 - For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:5 - Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:11 - In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:11 - Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:11 - And Jesus, whose other name is Justus; these are of the circumcision: they are my only brother-workers for the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:10 - For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,
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