Noun:

परिशुद्ध करण, लिंगाग्रचर्म-उच्छेदन, सुन्न्त, खतना,

circumcision's Usage Examples:

As the first rite corresponds to the circumcision and naming of Jesus, so does the second to His presentation in the temple.

But Jesus did what the law couldn't do, put us right with God, and so made circumcision unnecessary.

The rituals of the Old Testament (which included circumcision) were never designed to make us acceptable to God.

There are a variety of ways of performing a circumcision.

He maintained the everlasting validity of the law, he held the strictest views on circumcision, the sabbath, and the duty of shunning all intercourse with the Gentiles; he believed in angels and in a blessed immortality.

Israel received circumcision as a sign that they were the Lord's, and this privilege of circumcision they enjoyed in common with the two highest orders of angels.

In his elaborate defence of Judaism our author glorifies circumcision and the sabbath, the bulwarks of Judaism, as heavenly ordinances, the sphere of which was so far extended as to embrace Israel on earth.

That circumcision (though perhaps not till puberty) was regularly practised is proved by the mummies (agreeing with the testimony of Herodotus and the indications of the early tomb sculptures) until an edict of Hadrian forbade it: after that, only priests were circumcised.

Circumcision is practised in some regions.

He issued an edict forbidding the reading of the law, the observance of the Sabbath, and the rite of circumcision; and determined to convert the still half-ruined Jerusalem into a Roman colony.

Synonyms:

Bris, Brith, Berit, religious rite, Briss, rite, Berith,