noun · feminine

katatomas

Greekκατατομή (katatomē)

Strong’sG2699

a mutilation, spoiling

stem katatom-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

who mutilate the flesh1×

What it means

**† κατα-τομή, -ῆς, ἡ,

[in Sm.: Je 48 (31):37 (κατατέμνω is used in LXX of forbidden mutilations: Le 21:5, al.);]

1. incision.

2. excision, concision, mutilation: in sarcasm, by paronomasia, in contrast to (true) περιτομή (Phl 3:3), of Judaizing Christians, Phl 3:2 (v. Lft., in l.; Cremer, 883).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2699 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkat-at-om-ay'

a cutting down (off), i.e. mutilation (ironically)

Fromfrom a compound of G2596 and τέμνω (to cut);

King Jamesconcision.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	katatomas	katatomais
object accusative	katatoman1×κατατομήν	katatomain
direct address vocative	katatomar	katatomair
of, belonging to genitive	katatomau	katatomaiu
to, for dative	katatoma	katatomai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

katatomstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

katatoma is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

katatoman“who mutilate the flesh”objectaccusative singular1×

Philippians 3:2“who mutilate the flesh”Blepavōr toin kuōnoin, blepavōr toin kakoin ergatoin, blepavōr tan katatoman.Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!