peritemnō · circumcise

What it means

peritemnō (περιτέμνω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “circumcise”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To cut the male's foreskin as the sign of the covenant.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• be circumcised ×6
• circumcised ×6
• circumcise ×4
• circumcision ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×2
• John×1
• Acts×5
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Galatians×6
• Colossians×1

• Luke 1:59

  And it happened on the eighth day that they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling him by the name of his father, Zechariah.

• Luke 2:21

  And when eight days were completed for his circumcision, his name was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

• John 7:22

  For this reason Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

• Acts 7:8

  And he gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

• Acts 15:1

  And some who had come down from Judea were teaching the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

• Acts 15:5

  But some of those from the party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”

• Acts 16:3

  Paul wanted this man to go out with him, and taking him, he circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

• Acts 21:21

  and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the nations apostasy from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.

• 1 Corinthians 7:18

  Was anyone called when already circumcised? Let him not undo his circumcision. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

• Galatians 2:3

  But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

• Galatians 5:2

  Look, I, Paul, say to you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, the Messiah will benefit you nothing.

• Galatians 5:3

  And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to do the whole law.

• Galatians 6:12

  As many as want to make a good showing in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of the Messiah.

• Galatians 6:13

  For not even those who are being circumcised themselves keep the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

• Colossians 2:11

  In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made by hands, in the stripping off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Messiah,

And 2 more times.