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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