katatomas

Strong’sG2699

a mutilation, spoiling

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

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

**† 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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

κατατομή, ἡ,
incision, notch, groove, LXX+4th c.BC+, compare 373.231: plural, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II part of a theatre, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 face of rock, Refs 4th c.BC+; μέταλλον καὶ κ. perhaps a mine and a quarry-face, Refs
III ={καταγραφή}, profile, Refs 5th c.AD+
IV mutilation, opposed to true circumcision, a παρονομασία in NT

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

who mutilate the flesh1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

katatoman“who mutilate the flesh”objectaccusative singular1×

Philippians 3:2“who mutilate the flesh”… blepavōr toin kakosoin ergatoin, blepavōr tan katatoman.… dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!