περιτομή

English (LSJ)

ἡ,

   A circumcision, LXX Ge.17.13, Agatharch.61, Str.16.2.37 (pl.), Ph.1.450,al., Dsc.2.82 : metaph., π. καρδίας Ep.Rom.2.29.    II section of a machine, ἡ κάτω π. Apollod.Poliorc.173.4.    III circular incision, Heliod. ap. Orib.45.6.9,45.7.3, Aët.15.8.

German (Pape)

[Seite 596] ἡ, das Beschneiden ringsum, die Beschneidung, Sp., wie N. T.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

περιτομή: ἡ, ὡς καί νῦν, Ἑβδ. Καιν. Διαθ., Φίλων κλ.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ῆς (ἡ) :
circoncision.
Étymologie: περιτέμνω.

English (Strong)

from περιτέμνω; circumcision (the rite, the condition or the people, literally or figuratively): X circumcised, circumcision.

English (Thayer)

περιτομῆς, ἡ (περιτέμνω), circumcision (on which see περιτέμνω);
a. properly, α. the act or rite of circumcision: οἱ ἐκ τῆς περιτομῆς (see ἐκ, II:7), the circumcised, they of the circumcision, used of Jews, οἱ ὄντες ἐκ περιτομῆς, β. the state of circumcision, the being circumcised: ἐν περιτομή ὤν, circumcised, γ. by metonymy, 'the circumcision' for οἱ περιτμηθέντες the circumcised, i. e. Jews: οἱ ἐκ περιτομῆς πιστοί, Christian converts from among the Jews, Jewish Christians, α. of Christians: (ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν) ἡ περιτομή, separated from the unclean multitude and truly consecrated to God, Lightfoot)). β. ἡ περιτομή ἀχειροποίητος, the extinction of the passions and the removal of spiritual impurity (see περιτέμνω, at the end), ἡ περιτομή καρδίας in περιτομή τοῦ Χριστοῦ, of which Christ is the author, περιτομή occurs three times in the O. T., viz. מוּלָה, 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; (13,11at the end; contra Apion 2,13, 1,6); plural, Antiquities 1,12, 2.)