# G4061 περιτομή

περιτομή (peritomḗ), Strong’s G4061: circumcision (the rite, the condition or the people, literally or figuratively) KJV: X circumcised, circumcision. Occurs 40 times.

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*peritomḗ* — circumcision (the rite, the condition or the people, literally or figuratively)

KJV: X circumcised, circumcision

Derived from [περιτέμνω peritémnō](https://besorah.bible/word/G4059) (to cut around)

Occurs 40 times.

## Where it occurs
- [John 7:22](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/7?v=22) — Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
- [John 7:23](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/7?v=23) — If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the Torah of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because…
- [Acts 7:8](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/7?v=8) — He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day…
- [Acts 10:45](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/10?v=45) — They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was…
- [Acts 11:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/11?v=2) — When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,
- [Romans 2:25](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/2?v=25) — For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your…
- [Romans 2:26](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/2?v=26) — If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
- [Romans 2:27](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/2?v=27) — Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are…
- [Romans 2:28](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/2?v=28) — For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
- [Romans 2:29](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/2?v=29) — but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose…