se.ret denotes a bodily cutting prohibited in Leviticus 19:28.

The term denotes a bodily cutting in the prohibition concerning making such a mark in one’s flesh in Leviticus 19:28.

1. Bodily cutting or mark · dominant

   In Leviticus 19:28, the masculine singular absolute noun occurs in the prohibition against giving such a cutting “in your flesh.” The APB renders the clause, “You shall not give an incision for the soul in your flesh.”

   Leviticus 19:28

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Leviticus 19:28, the APB uses “incision” in the clause about the flesh and later repeats “an incision” in its rendering of the verse. The specific correspondence of each English occurrence cannot be isolated with certainty.