Words the Bible translates as circumcise
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- peritemnōπεριτέμνωto circumcise: to cut away the foreskin as the physical sign that a male belongs to God's covenant people
- mulמוּלto circumcise: to cut away the foreskin as the bodily sign of belonging to God's covenant
+1 more meaning
- to cut off, beat back, or waste away: a separate poetic word for destroying or fending off, unrelated to the covenant rite
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