ἀκροβυστία
akrobustiauncircumcisionHow to read Greek
greekNew TestamentNoun · feminine20 occurrences6 books17 verses
Definition
ἀκροβυστία, -ας, ή
(perh. an Alexandrian form of cl. ἀκροποσθία; cf. MM, VGT, see word) [in LXX for עׇרְלָה ;]
the prepuce, foreskin (LXX), hence abstr., uncircumcision: Acts 11:3, Romans 2:25-27; 3:30; 4:10-12, 1 Corinthians 7:18-19, Galatians 5:6; 6:15, Colossians 2:13; 3:11 By meton., the uncircumcised: Romans 4:9, Galatians 2:7, Ephesians 2:11.
Usage patterns
Occurrences
20 total
- Acts 11:3ἀκροβυστίαν · uncircumcised…and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
- Romans 2:25ἀκροβυστία · uncircumcisionCircumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
- Romans 2:26ἀκροβυστία · a man who is not circumcised; ἀκροβυστία · uncircumcisionIf a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
- Romans 2:27ἀκροβυστία · uncircumcisedThe one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.
- Romans 3:30ἀκροβυστίαν · [the] uncircumcised…since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
- Romans 4:9ἀκροβυστίαν · uncircumcisedIs this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.
- Romans 4:10ἀκροβυστίᾳ · [before]; ἀκροβυστίᾳ · [before]In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.
- Romans 4:11ἀκροβυστίᾳ · [he was still] uncircumcised; ἀκροβυστίας · are not circumcisedAnd he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
- Romans 4:12ἀκροβυστίᾳ · had before he was circumcisedAnd he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
- 1 Corinthians 7:18ἀκροβυστίᾳ · still uncircumcisedWas a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.
- 1 Corinthians 7:19ἀκροβυστία · uncircumcisionCircumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
- Galatians 2:7ἀκροβυστίας · uncircumcisedOn the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted to preach the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised.
- Galatians 5:6ἀκροβυστία · uncircumcisionFor in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself through love.
- Galatians 6:15ἀκροβυστία · uncircumcisionFor neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
- Ephesians 2:11ἀκροβυστία · uncircumcisedTherefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
- Colossians 2:13ἀκροβυστίᾳ · uncircumcisionWhen you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
- Colossians 3:11ἀκροβυστία · uncircumcisedHere there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.