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Greek verb · G1986

ἐπισπάομαι

epispaomaiep-ee-spah'-om-ahee

to uncircumcise

1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: epispáomai

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1986is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G1986

to draw over, i.e. efface the mark of circumcision

The King James renders it: become uncircumcised.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

epispaomai is rendered "to uncircumcise". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 7:18Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.

The first use

Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.

1 Corinthians 7:18ἐπισπάσθω

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • he should become uncircumcised1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

ἐπιστρέφωepistrephoto turnUses36
ἐπιστολήepistoleepistleUses24
ἐπίσταμαιepistamaito know/understandUses14
ἐπισκέπτομαιepiskeptomaito visit/care forUses11
ἐπισυνάγωepisynagoto gatherUses8
ἐπιστάτηςepistatesmasterUses7
ἐπισκιάζωepiskiazoto overshadowUses5
ἐπίσκοποςepiskoposoverseerUses5
ἐπισκοπήepiskopeoversightUses4
ἐπιστηρίζωepisterizoto strengthenUses4
ἐπιστέλλωepistelloto write toUses3
ἐπίσημοςepisemosnotableUses2

and 12 more on the stem.

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἐπισπάσθω1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · present middle or passive form, command · 3rd person singular1V-PNM-3S

1 Corinthians

one use
  • Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.

    1 Corinthians 7:18

    • ἐπισπάσθωepispasthoverb · present middle or passive form, command · 3rd person singulartagged: he should become uncircumcised

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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