foreskin
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
The loose skin at the tip of the male body part that is cut off in circumcision. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It is the skin removed in circumcision, the sign of the covenant with Abraham, done on the eighth day. Interpretation: Tradition holds circumcision (brit milah) is a commandment for every Jewish boy on the eighth day. "Circumcise the foreskin of your heart" is read as a call to remove stubbornness and open the heart to God.
examples
- Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. (Torah DEU.10.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. (Torah LEV.12.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. (Torah GEN.17.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul's son, saying: 'Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.' (Prophets 2SA.3.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- and David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. (Prophets 1SA.18.27, JPS 1917) tree →
note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
In the corpora
- And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
- And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
- And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
- Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Trees and pragmatics
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