What does κατατομή (katatomḗ) mean in the Bible?
κατατομή (katatomḗ): Paul's scornful term for mutilation, contrasting false ritual practice with true spiritual circumcision.
Greek · G2699
κατατομή
Mutilation
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κατατομή G2699
Pronunciation katatomḗ
What does κατατομή (katatomḗ) mean in the Bible?
κατατομή (katatomḗ): Paul's scornful term for mutilation, contrasting false ritual practice with true spiritual circumcision.
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How does the BSB render G2699?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include mutilators of the flesh (1).
Where does κατατομή (katatomḗ) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Philippians 3:2. Its strongest book concentrations include Philippians (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It mutilators of the flesh 1× Philippians 3:2
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First aligned row Philippians 3:2
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
Philippians 1
Source forms
κατατομήν 1x katatomēn Philippians 3:2
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Philippians 3:2
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Paul's scornful term for mutilation, contrasting false ritual practice with true spiritual circumcision.
Strong's G2699
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Philippians 3:1–3 Source Gloss
mutilation
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Paul's scornful term for mutilation, contrasting false ritual practice with true spiritual circumcision.
[in Sm.: Jer.31:37 (κατατέμνω is used in LXX of forbidden mutilations: Lev.21:5, al.) ;]
1incision.
2excision, concision, mutilation: in sarcasm, by paronomasia, in contrast to (true) περιτομή (v3), of Judaizing Christians, Php.3:2 (see Lft., in l; Cremer, 883).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Philippians 3:2 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
κατατομήν· katatomhn
a mutilation, spoiling
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 1 Aligned forms 1 Case pattern Accusative (1) Number pattern Singular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Phil 3:2 1×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
New Testament Witnesses
mutilation
Word Origins
κατατομή is built from this root:
Why This Word Matters
Exposes reliance on empty ritual. Philippians 3:1–3
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain