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Lexicon :: Strong's G203 - akrobystia

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ἀκροβυστία
Transliteration
akrobystia (Key)
Pronunciation
ak-rob-oos-tee'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἄκρον (G206) and probably a modified form of posthe (the penis or male sexual organ)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:225,36

Strong’s Definitions

ἀκροβυστία akrobystía, ak-rob-oos-tee'-ah; from G206 and probably a modified form of πόσθη pósthē (the penis or male sexual organ); the prepuce; by implication, an uncircumcised (i.e. gentile, figuratively, unregenerate) state or person:—not circumcised, uncircumcised (with G2192), uncircumcision.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x

The KJV translates Strong's G203 in the following manner: uncircumcision (16x), being circumcised (2x), uncircumcised (with G2192) (1x), though not circumcised (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x
The KJV translates Strong's G203 in the following manner: uncircumcision (16x), being circumcised (2x), uncircumcised (with G2192) (1x), though not circumcised (1x).

  1. having the foreskin, uncircumcised

  2. a Gentile

  3. a condition in which the corrupt desires rooted in the flesh were not yet extinct

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀκροβυστία akrobystía, ak-rob-oos-tee'-ah; from G206 and probably a modified form of πόσθη pósthē (the penis or male sexual organ); the prepuce; by implication, an uncircumcised (i.e. gentile, figuratively, unregenerate) state or person:—not circumcised, uncircumcised (with G2192), uncircumcision.
STRONGS G203:
ἀκροβυστία, -ας, ἡ, (a word unknown to the Greeks, who used ἡ ἀκροποσθία and τὸ ἀκροπόσθιον, from πόσθη i. e. membrum virile. Accordingly it is likely that τὴν ποσθην of the Greeks was pronounced τὴν βύστην by the Alexandrians, and ἀκροβυστία said instead of ἀκροποσθια — i. e. τὸ 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 Aufl. 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, 26b; 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 (Tertullian praeputiatus), uncircumcised i. e. Gentile, Romans 4:10; ἐν ἀκρ. namely, ὤν, 1 Corinthians 7:18; equivalent, to the same is δἰ ἀκροβ. 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 equivalent to a Gentile: Romans 2:26a; Romans 3:30; 4:9; Ephesians 2:11; ἡ ἐκ φύσεως ἀκροβ. one uncircumcised by birth or a Gentile, opposed to a Jew who shows himself a Gentile in character, Romans 2:27; εὐαγγέλιον τῆς ἀκροβ. gospel to be preached to the Gentiles, Galatians 2:7.
c. in a transferred sense: ἡ ἀκροβ. 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 Circumcision]).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
11:3
Romans
2:25; 2:26; 2:26; 2:27; 3:30; 4:9; 4:10; 4:11; 4:11
1 Corinthians
7:18; 7:19
Galatians
2:7; 5:6; 6:15
Ephesians
2:11
Colossians
2:11; 2:13; 3:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G203 matches the Greek ἀκροβυστία (akrobystia),
which occurs 14 times in 14 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:11 - You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:14 - Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:24 - Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:25 - And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:14 - They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:25 - Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’[fn] feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:3 - And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 - So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25 - Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:27 - David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:14 - Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:25 - “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh—
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