G4059 – peritemno – περιτέμνω circumcise

Strong’s ID:
G4059
Greek Word:
περιτέμνω
Transliteration:
peritemno
Pronunciation:
per-ee-tem’-no
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage Count:
18
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon

from G4012 and the base of G5114; to cut around, i.e. (specially) to circumcise:—circumcise.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) to cut around
2) to circumcise
2a) cut off one’s prepuce (used of that well known rite by which not only the male children of the Israelites, on the eighth day after birth, but subsequently also “proselytes of righteousness” were consecrated to Jehovah and introduced into the number of his people)
2b) to get one’s self circumcised, present one’s self to be circumcised, receive circumcision
2c) since by the rite of circumcision a man was separated from the unclean world and dedicated to God, the word is transferred to denote the extinguishing of lusts and the removal of sins

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.