() is a Greek word meaning 'incision.'

Classical Greek

1. The original meaning, following etymology, in classical texts means 'incision,' 'notch,' or 'groove,' (

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''The Hippocratic treatises'' 4.8.10, and Symmachus Sm.Je.31 (48).37), whereas () means 'uncarved,' 'smooth,' (''

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'' IG12.372.134, cf. 373.231). The plural, 'notches,' is found in

Artemidorus Artemidorus Daldianus ( grc-gre, Ἀρτεμίδωρος ὁ Δαλδιανός) or Ephesius was a professional diviner who lived in the 2nd century AD. He is known from an extant five-volume Greek work, the '' Oneirocritica'' or ''Oneirokritikon ...

(1.67) and 'written in the incision of the rock' (),

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Historicus, 4th century BCE (138). 2. By extension it also came to mean an architectural 'incision', 'nook' in a theatre, in

Hyperides Hypereides or Hyperides ( grc-gre, Ὑπερείδης, ''Hypereidēs''; c. 390 – 322 BC; English pronunciation with the stress variably on the penultimate or antepenultimate syllable) was an Athenian logographer (speech writer). He was one ...

, perhaps the same as the () or (), ( AB270., cf.

Photius Photios I ( el, Φώτιος, ''Phōtios''; c. 810/820 – 6 February 893), also spelled PhotiusFr. Justin Taylor, essay "Canon Law in the Age of the Fathers" (published in Jordan Hite, T.O.R., & Daniel J. Ward, O.S.B., "Readings, Cases, Materia ...

Lexicographus, 9th century AD). Demosthenes placed himself beneath the which suggests he may have been barred from speaking to any citizen from another ''

phyle ''Phyle'' ( gr, φυλή, phulē, "tribe, clan"; pl. ''phylai'', φυλαί; derived from ancient Greek φύεσθαι "to descend, to originate") is an ancient Greek term for tribe or clan. Members of the same ''phyle'' were known as ''symphylet ...

.'' 3. A later meaning is , 'profile,' according to Hesychius Lexicographus, 5th century AD.

New Testament

It is the Greek word translated 'beware of the concision,' in Philippians 3:2,

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. The term 'mutilation' is contrasted with "we are the circumcision ( ), which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." The context is the

circumcision controversy in early Christianity According to the Hebrew Bible, circumcision was enjoined upon the biblical patriarch Abraham, his descendants and their slaves as "a token of the covenant" concluded with him by God for all generations, as an "everlasting covenant". The Council ...

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''What Saint Paul really said: was Paul of Tarsus the real founder ...'' - 1997 p192 "When Paul coins somewhat contemptuous puns to make this point (for instance, katatome, 'mutilation', for peritome, 'circumcision', in Philippians 3:2), this is not mere angry invective. It is the equivalent of what would happen today if ."

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