περιτομήperitomḗ
circumcision
Greek (New Testament) · G4061
Meanings
(a) of the rite itself: John 7:22, John 7:23, Acts 7:8, Romans 4:11, Galatians 5:11, Philippians 3:5
(b) of the state of circumcision: Romans 2:25-28, Romans 3:1, 1 Corinthians 7:19, Galatians 5:6, Galatians 6:15, Colossians 3:11; ἐν π. ὤν, Romans 4:10
(c) by by metonymy, ἡ π. = οἱ περιτμηθέντες, the circumcised: Romans 3:30, Romans 4:9, Romans 4:12, Romans 15:8, Galatians 2:7-9, Ephesians 2:11; οἱ ἐκ τῆς π., of Jews, Romans 4:12; of Jewish Christians, Acts 11:2, Galatians 2:12, Titus 1:10; οἱ ἐκ π. πιστοί, Acts 10:45; οἱ ὄντες ἐκ π., Colossians 4:11. Metaph., Romans 2:29, Colossians 2:11, Philippians 3:3.
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 36 times in the Bible.
- 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.)
- John 7:23 For if the correct time for circumcising your son falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it so as not to break the law of Moses. So why should you be angry with me for healing a man on the Sabbath?
- 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 10:45 The Jewish believers who came with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles, too.
- Acts 11:2 But when Peter arrived back in Jerusalem, the Jewish believers criticized him.
- Romans 2:25 The Jewish ceremony of circumcision has value only if you obey God’s law. But if you don’t obey God’s law, you are no better off than an uncircumcised Gentile.
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.