akrobystia · foreskin, uncircumcision

What it means

akrobystia (ἀκροβυστία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “foreskin, uncircumcision”.

Foreskin; hence uncircumcision, the state of not being circumcised, and the uncircumcised, the people who are not Jews.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Not being circumcised.
2. Those who are not Jews.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• uncircumcised ×10
• uncircumcision ×10

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Acts×1
• Romans×11
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Galatians×3
• Ephesians×1
• Colossians×2

• Acts 11:3

  saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

• Romans 2:25

  For circumcision indeed is of value if you practice the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

• Romans 2:26

  So if the uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

• Romans 2:27

  And the one who is physically uncircumcised but fulfills the law will judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

• Romans 3:30

  since God is one, who will declare righteous the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

• Romans 4:9

  Is this happiness, then, upon the circumcised or also upon the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.

• Romans 4:10

  How then was it counted? When he was circumcised or uncircumcised? Not circumcised, but uncircumcised.

• Romans 4:11

  And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had while uncircumcised, so that he would be the father of all who believe while uncircumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them,

• Romans 4:12

  and the father of the circumcised, for those who are not only circumcised but also who walk in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham while uncircumcised.

• 1 Corinthians 7:18

  Was anyone called when already circumcised? Let him not undo his circumcision. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

• 1 Corinthians 7:19

  Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.

• Galatians 2:7

  On the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, just as Peter with that of the circumcision

• Galatians 5:6

  For in the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is worth anything, but faith working through love.

• Galatians 6:15

  For neither circumcision is anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

• Ephesians 2:11

  Therefore remember that once you, the nations in the flesh, who were called “uncircumcision” by what is called “circumcision,” in the flesh, made by hands—

• Colossians 2:13

  And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all the trespasses,

• Colossians 3:11

  where there is no Greek or Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free, but the Messiah is all and in all.

And 3 more times.