Strong's Greek · G4059
G4059 peritémnō
περιτέμνω
per-ee-tem'-no
to circumcise
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peritémnō appears 17 times in Scripture, including Luke 1:59 and John 7:22. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to cut around, i.e. (specially) to circumcise
In the King James Version
circumcise
Derivation
Appears 17 times in Scripture
“Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.””
“But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.”
“Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.”
“On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.”
“Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.”
“But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)”
“Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.”
“Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, so he took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.”
“When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).