foreskin

noun

«foreskin» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In 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.

Meaning

The loose skin at the tip of the male body part that is cut off in circumcision. tree →

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

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