1. circumcision — The Jewish rite of cutting away the foreskin as a sign of covenant membership, and by metonymy the Jewish people or covenant community themselves ('those of the circumcision'); a central term in Pauline theology for the debate over whether Gentile believers must undergo the physical rite. Multilingual evidence is uniform: spa 'circuncisión,' hin 'खतना' (khatnā), arb 'الخِتان' (al-ḫitān), kor '할례' (hallye), swa 'tohara/waliotahiriwa' (circumcision/those who were circumcised). The genitive constructions in S74674 ('of circumcision') function attributively or possessively but carry the same lexical meaning as the nominative, accusative, and dative forms in S74672. All 36 occurrences represent one unified sense encompassing both the physical act and the metonymic reference to the circumcised community. 36×
AR["الخِتانَ","الخِتانُ","الخِتانِ","بِالخِتانِ","خِتانٌ","خِتانٍ","خِتانُ","خِتانُكَ","خِتَانًا","خِتَانَ","ٱلْخِتَانِ"]·ben["ত্বকছেদ","ত্বকছেদ;","ত্বকছেদে","ত্বকছেদে,","ত্বকছেদের,","ত্বকছেদের?","সুন্নত","সুন্নতকে","সুন্নতি","সুন্নতের"]·DE["Beschneidung","περιτομῆς"]·EN["circumcision"]·FR["circoncision"]·heb["מִילָה"]·HI["खतन","खतना","खतना,"]·ID["Sunat","sunat","sunat,","sunat;","sunat?","yang-bersunat","yang-bersunat,"]·IT["circoncisione","peritomen","peritomē","peritomēn"]·jav["sunat","tetak","tetak,","tetak;","tetak?","tetakipun"]·KO["할례","할례-에서","할례-의","할례가","할례는","할례를","할례파가"]·PT["circuncisão"]·RU["Обрезание","обрезание","обрезании","обрезания"]·ES["circuncisión"]·SW["kutahiriwa","tohara","tohara,","waliotahiriwa"]·TR["o-","suennet","suennet,","suennet;","sünneti","sünnetin","sünnetli","sünnetli-iken","sünnetlilerden","sünnetlilere","sünnetlileri","sünnetlilik","sünnetlilikte"]·urd["ختنہ","ختنہ-نہیں-ہے","ختنہ-والوں-کو","ختنہ-ہے","ختنے","ختنے-کے"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
περιτομ-ή, ἡ, circumcision, LXX+2nd c.BC+ __II section of a machine, ἡ κάτω π. Refs 2nd c.AD+ __III circular incision, Refs 1st c.AD+