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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 20 times in 17 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:3 - saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:25 - For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:26 - Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:27 - And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:30 - since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:9 - Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:10 - How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:11 - And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:12 - and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:18 - Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:19 - Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:7 - But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:6 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 6:15 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:11 - Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands—

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:13 - And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:11 - where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
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