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# circumcision

«circumcision» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the act of cutting off the foreskin of a boy or man** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

the act of cutting off the foreskin of a boy or man [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circumcision/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It is the sign of God's covenant with Abraham and his descendants, done on the eighth day. Interpretation: This is called brit milah, "covenant of the word." Westcott notes that the Hebrew word for it is connected to the word for "word."

### examples

- Then she said: 'A bridegroom of blood in regard of the circumcision.' (Torah EXO.4.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circumcision/#x1)
- The Covenant of Circumcision was to be an outward and visible sign of the Divine promise made to Abraham and his offspring. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circumcision/#x2)
- The Hebrew word for circumcision is Mulah, MULH : note that MLH is also synonymous with DBR, dabar, — verbum or word. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circumcision/#x3)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [Then she said: 'A bridegroom of blood in regard of the circumcision.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.108/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «circumcision» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/circumcision/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.