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# 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreskin/#m1)

### Examples

- Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. (Torah DEU.10.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreskin/#x1)
- And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. (Torah LEV.12.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreskin/#x2)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreskin/#x3)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreskin/#x4)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreskin/#x5)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «foreskin» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreskin/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«foreskin» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/foreskin.html) on Mova free.