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Strong's #203 - ἀκροβυστία

Transliteration
akrobystía
Phonetics
ak-rob-oos-tee'-ah
Origin
from (G206) and probably a modified form of posthe (the penis or male sexual organ)
Parts of Speech
feminine noun
TDNT
1:225,36
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Definition   
Thayer's
  1. having the foreskin, uncircumcised
  2. a Gentile
  3. a condition in which the corrupt desires rooted in the flesh were not yet extinct
Hebrew Equivalent Words:
Strong #: 6190 ‑ עָרְלָה (or‑law');  
Frequency Lists
Verse Results
ASV (20)
Acts 1
Romans 11
1 Corinthians 2
Galatians 3
Ephesians 1
Colossians 2
BSB (20)
Acts 1
Romans 11
1 Corinthians 2
Galatians 3
Ephesians 1
Colossians 2
CSB (20)
Acts 1
Romans 11
1 Corinthians 2
Galatians 3
Ephesians 1
Colossians 2
ESV (12)
Acts 1
Romans 11
1 Corinthians 2
Galatians 3
Ephesians 1
Colossians 2
KJV (20)
Acts 1
Romans 11
1 Corinthians 2
Galatians 3
Ephesians 1
Colossians 2
LEB (0)
The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number
LSB (23)
Acts 1
Romans 14
1 Corinthians 2
Galatians 3
Ephesians 1
Colossians 2
N95 (23)
Acts 1
Romans 14
1 Corinthians 2
Galatians 3
Ephesians 1
Colossians 2
NAS (23)
Acts 1
Romans 14
1 Corinthians 2
Galatians 3
Ephesians 1
Colossians 2
NLT (17)
Romans 13
1 Corinthians 2
Galatians 3
Ephesians 2
Colossians 3
WEB (20)
Acts 1
Romans 11
1 Corinthians 2
Galatians 3
Ephesians 1
Colossians 2
YLT (18)
Acts 1
Romans 10
1 Corinthians 1
Galatians 3
Ephesians 1
Colossians 2
Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἀκρο-βυστία, ἡ,

I foreskin, LXX Genesis 17:11, al., Ph. Fr. 49 H., Acts 11:3.

II

1. state of having the foreskin, uncircumcision, Romans 2:25, etc.

2. collect., the uncircumcised, Romans 2:26; Romans 3:30, etc. (Prob. from ἄκρος and a Semitic root, cf. Bab. buśtu 'pudenda', Heb. bôsheth 'shame': wrongly derived from ἄκρος, βύω by EM 53.48.)

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ἀκροβυστία, (ας, (a word unknown to the Greeks, who used 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 (Tertullian praeputiatus), 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; 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}; ; Ephesians 2:11; ἐκ φύσεως ἀκροβυστία, one uncircumcised by birth or a Gentile, opposed to a Jew who shows himself a Gentile in character, Romans 2:27; εὐαγγέλιον τῆς ἀκροβυστίας gospel to be preached to the Gentiles, Galatians 2:7.

c. in a transferred sense: 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 )).


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

ἀκροβυστία , -ας , ή

(perh. an Alexandrian form of cl. ἀκροποσθία ; cf. MM, VGT, s.v.),

[in LXX for H6190;]

the prepuce, foreskin (LXX), hence abstr., uncircumcision: Acts 11:3, Romans 2:25-27; Romans 3:30; Romans 4:10-12, 1 Corinthians 7:18-19, Galatians 5:6; Galatians 6:15, Colossians 2:13; Colossians 3:11 By meton., the uncircumcised: Romans 4:9, Galatians 2:7, Ephesians 2:11.†


Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Vocabulary of the Greek NT

We have (naturally enough) no citations to illustrate this technical word of Jewish ritual, but a note on its formation might be given (from J. H. Moulton’s forthcoming Grammar of NT Greek, vol. II.) : "; Ἀκροποσθία, a normal descriptive cpd. from ἄκρος and πόσθη with a fresh suffix, is found in Hippocrates, and is obviously the original of the LXX word. When a word containing a vox obscaena was taken from medical vocabulary into popular religious speech, it was natural to disguise it : a rare word βύστρα = βύσμα may supply the model. ";

 


The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
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List of Word Forms
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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