Strong's Greek · G4061
G4061 peritomḗ
περιτομή
per-it-om-ay'
circumcision
Looking for Hebrew H4061 middâh? It has the same number in Strong's Hebrew lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of G4061. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
peritomḗ appears 36 times in Scripture, including John 7:22 and Acts 7:8. 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
circumcision (the rite, the condition or the people, literally or figuratively)
In the King James Version
X circumcised, circumcision
Derivation
from G4059 (περιτέμνω);
Appears 36 times in Scripture
“Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.”
“What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?”
“And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.”
“In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.”
“Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.”
“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.”
“If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?”
“But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)”
“All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.”
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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).
