περιτέμνωperitémnō

Meanings

Same root

• περίperí · G4012properly, through (all over), i.e. around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time (with the genitive case denoting the subject or occasion or superlative point; with the accusative case the locality, circuit, matter, circumstance or general period)
• τομώτεροςtomṓteros · G5114more comprehensive or decisive than G2875 (κόπτω), as if by a single stroke; whereas that implies repeated blows, like hacking); more keen
• ἀπερίτμητοςaperítmētos · G564uncircumcised (figuratively)
• περιτομήperitomḗ · G4061circumcision (the rite, the condition or the people, literally or figuratively)

Where it appears

Appears 17 times in the Bible.

• Luke 1:59 When the baby was eight days old, they all came for the circumcision ceremony. They wanted to name him Zechariah, after his father.
• Luke 2:21 Eight days later, when the baby was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel even before he was conceived.
• John 7:22 But you work on the Sabbath, too, when you obey Moses’ law of circumcision. (Actually, this tradition of circumcision began with the patriarchs, long before the law of Moses.)
• Acts 7:8 “God also gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision at that time. So when Abraham became the father of Isaac, he circumcised him on the eighth day. And the practice was continued when Isaac became the father of Jacob, and when Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs of the Israelite nation.
• Acts 15:1 While Paul and Barnabas were at Antioch of Syria, some men from Judea arrived and began to teach the believers: “Unless you are circumcised as required by the law of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
• Acts 15:5 But then some of the believers who belonged to the sect of the Pharisees stood up and insisted, “The Gentile converts must be circumcised and required to follow the law of Moses.”