Greek verb · G4059
περιτέμνω
peritemnoper-ee-tem'-no
to circumcise
17 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: peritémnō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4059is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4059
to cut around, i.e. (specially) to circumcise
The King James renders it: circumcise.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
peritemno is rendered "to circumcise". It stands 17 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Six of the uses stand in Galatians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:59On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
Luke 1:59περιτεμεῖν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's seventeen uses are in Galatians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to circumcise4
- to be circumcised3
- being circumcised2
- circumcised2
- you shall become circumcised2
- he circumcised1
- he should d be circumcise1
- you circumcise1
- you were circumcised1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| περί | peri | about | Uses332 |
| περιπατέω | peripateo | to walk | Uses94 |
| περισσεύω | perisseuo | to exceed | Uses39 |
| περιτομή | peritome | circumcision | Uses36 |
| περιβάλλω | periballo | to clothe | Uses23 |
| περισσοτέρως | perissoteros | more excessively | Uses12 |
| περιστερά | peristera | dove | Uses10 |
| περισσῶς | perissos | excessively | Uses9 |
| περίχωρος | perichoros | region | Uses9 |
| περισσότερος | perissoteros | more excessive | Uses9 |
| περιτίθημι | peritithemi | to put on | Uses8 |
| περιβλέπω | periblepo | to look around | Uses7 |
and 43 more on the stem.
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- περιέτεμεν2
- περιτεμεῖν2
- περιτέμνειν2
- περιτέμνεσθαι2
- περιετμήθητε1
- περιτεμνέσθω1
- περιτέμνετε1
- περιτέμνησθε1
- περιτεμνόμενοι1
- περιτεμνομένῳ1
- Περιτετμημένος1
- περιτμηθῆναι1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-2AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-2AAN
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-PAN
- verb · present passive, infinitive (“to…”)2V-PPN
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-2API-2P
- verb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)1V-APN
- verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person plural1V-APS-2P
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-PAI-2P
- verb · present passive, command · 3rd person singular1V-PPM-3S
- verb · present passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1V-PPP-DSM
- verb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PPP-NPM
- verb · present passive, subjunctive · 2nd person plural1V-PPS-2P
Luke
two uses
On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
- περιτεμεῖνperitemeinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to circumcise
When the eight days until His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived.
- περιτεμεῖνperitemeinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to circumcise
John
one use
But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
- περιτέμνετεperitemneteverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you circumcise
Acts
five uses
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.
- περιέτεμενperietemenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: circumcised
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.”
- περιτμηθῆτεperitmetheteverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person pluraltagged: you shall become circumcised
But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”
- περιτέμνεινperitemneinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to circumcise
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.
- περιέτεμενperietemenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he circumcised
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.
- περιτέμνεινperitemneinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to circumcise
1 Corinthians
two uses
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.
- Περιτετμημένοςperitetmemenosverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: circumcised
- περιτεμνέσθωperitemnesthoverb · present passive, command · 3rd person singulartagged: he should d be circumcise
Galatians
six uses
Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
- περιτμηθῆναιperitmethenaiverb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be circumcised
Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
- περιτέμνησθεperitemnestheverb · present passive, subjunctive · 2nd person pluraltagged: you shall become circumcised
Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
- περιτεμνομένῳperitemnomenoverb · present passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: being circumcised
Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.
- περιτέμνεσθαιperitemnesthaiverb · present passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be circumcised
For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
- περιτεμνόμενοιperitemnomenoiverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: being circumcised
- περιτέμνεσθαιperitemnesthaiverb · present passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be circumcised
Colossians
one use
In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
- περιετμήθητεperietmetheteverb · aorist passive, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you were circumcised
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.