circumcise(-ing), selves), cut down (in pieces), destroy, X must needs

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(cutting around). Cutting off the foreskin. A rite, performed on males on eighth day after birth (Gen. 17; Lev. 12:3; Ex. 12:44; John 7:22). Antagonized by Christianity (Acts 15; 1 Cor. 7:18; Gal. 5:2).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

The rite appointed by God to be a token of the covenant that He made with Abraham and his seed, and also the seal of the righteousness of his faith. Every male in Abraham’s house was to be circumcised, and afterward every male of his seed on the eighth day after birth. It signified the separation of a people from the world to God. During the 40 years in the wilderness this rite was not performed, but on entering God’s land all were circumcised at Gilgal, when the reproach of Egypt was rolled away (Josh. 5:2-9). Circumcision became a synonym for Israel, so that they could be spoken of as “the circumcised,” and the heathen as “the uncircumcised” (Judg. 14:3; Ezek. 31:18; Acts 11:3). Contrary to the design of God, circumcision became a mere formal act, when the covenant itself was disregarded, and God then speaks of Israel as having “uncircumcised hearts.” Stephen charged the Jewish council with being “uncircumcised in heart and ears” (Lev. 26:41; Acts 7:51). In Romans 4 Abraham is shown to be “the father of circumcision,” that is, of all that believe as the truly separated people of God.
Hence circumcision is typical of the putting off the body of the flesh by those who accept the cross as the end of all flesh, because Christ was there cut off as to the flesh, “In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the [sins of the] flesh by the circumcision of Christ” (Col. 2:11); and again, “We are the circumcision which worship God by the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh” (Phil. 3:3). “Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth” (Col. 3:5).

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Transliteration:
muwl
Phonic:
mool
Meaning:
a primitive root; to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy
KJV Usage:
circumcise(-ing), selves), cut down (in pieces), destroy, X must needs