Strong's Concordance
akrobustia: the prepuce, foreskin, hence uncircumcision
Original Word: ἀκροβυστία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: akrobustia
Phonetic Spelling: (ak-rob-oos-tee'-ah)
Short Definition: foreskin
Definition: (a technical word of Jewish use) foreskin, prepuce: used sometimes as a slang term by Jews, of Gentiles.
HELPS Word-studies
203 akrobystía – properly, uncircumcised; (figuratively) a person outside of God's covenant, i.e. who does not belong to the Seed (Christ, the Messiah).
Physical circumcision is the visible sign of God's covenant, representing the opportunity from God to belong to Him by personally receiving His offer of salvation – through the Seed (Jesus Christ, the Messiah).
[203 /akrobystía literally means "what covers the extreme end," referring to the part of the male foreskin not removed by circumcision. The duty of physical circumcision of course did not relate to women.]
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 203: ἀκροβυστίαἀκροβυστία,
(ας,
ἡ (a word unknown to the Greeks, who used
ἡ ἀκροποσθία and
τό ἀκροπόσθιον, from
πόσθη i. e.
membrum virile. Accordingly it is likely that
τήν ποσθην of the Greeks was pronounced
τήν βύστην by the Alexandrians, and
ἀκροβυστία said instead of
ἀκροπόσθια — i. e.
τό ἄκρον τῆς πόσθης; cf. the acute remarks of Fritzsche, Commentary on Romans, vol. i., 136, together with the opinion which
Winer prefers 99 (94) (and
Cremer, 3te Anti. under the word)), in the
Sept. the equivalent of
עָרְלָה the prepuce, the skin covering the glans penis;
a. properly: Acts 11:3; Romans 2:25, 26{b}; 1 Corinthians 7:19; Galatians 5:6; Galatians 6:15; Colossians 3:11; (Judith 14:10; 1 Macc. 1:15); ἐν ἀκροβυστία ὤν having the foreskin (Tertullianpraeputiatus), uncircumcised i. e. Gentile, Romans 4:10; ἐν ἀκροβυστία, namely, ὤν, 1 Corinthians 7:18; equivalent, to the same is δἰ ἀκροβυστίας, Romans 4:11; ἡ ἐν τῇ ἀκροβυστία πίστις the faith which one has while he is uncircumcised, Romans 4:11f,
b. by metonyny, of the abstract for the concrete, having the foreskin is equiv. to a Gentile: Romans 2:26{a};
c. in a transferred sense: ἡ ἀκροβυστία τῆς σαρκός (opposed to the περιτομή ἀχειροποίητος or regeneration, Colossians 2:11), "the condition in which the corrupt desires rooted in the σάρξ were not yet extinct," Colossians 2:13 (the expression is derived from the circumstance that the foreskin was the sign of impurity and alienation from God (cf. B. D. under the word
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
uncircumcision, uncircumcised
From akron and probably a modified form of posthe (the penis or male sexual organ); the prepuce; by implication, an uncircumcised (i.e. Gentile, figuratively, unregenerate) state or person -- not circumcised, uncircumcised (with echo), uncircumcision.
see GREEK akron
see GREEK echo
Forms and Transliterations
ακροβυστια ακροβυστία ἀκροβυστία ἀκροβυστίᾳ ακροβυστίαις ακροβυστιαν ακροβυστίαν ἀκροβυστίαν ακροβυστιας ακροβυστίας ἀκροβυστίας ακροβυστιών ακρόβυστοι akrobustia akrobustian akrobustias akrobystia akrobystía akrobystíāi akrobystian akrobystían akrobystias akrobystías
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