| Lexical Summary peritemnō: to cut around, circumciseOriginal Word: περιτέμνω Transliteration: peritemnō Phonetic Spelling: (per-ee-tem'-no) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to cut around, circumcise Meaning: to cut around, circumcise Strong's Concordancecircumcise. From peri and the base of tomoteros; to cut around, i.e. (specially) to circumcise -- circumcise. see GREEK peri see GREEK tomoteros Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 4059: περιτέμνω περιτέμνω (Ionic περιτάμνω); 2 aorist περιέτεμον; passive, present περιτέμνομαι; perfect participle περιτετμημένος; 1 aorist περιετμήθην; (from Hesiod down); the Sept. chiefly for מוּל; to cut around (cf. περί, III. 1): τινα, to circumcise, 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; (cf. BB. DD. under the word | 



