Greek noun (feminine) · G203
ἀκροβυστία
akrobystiaak-rob-oos-tee'-ah
uncircumcision
20 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: akrobystía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G203is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G203
the prepuce; by implication, an uncircumcised (i.e. gentile, figuratively, unregenerate) state or person
The King James renders it: not circumcised, uncircumcised (with ), uncircumcision.
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
akrobystia is rendered "uncircumcision". It stands 20 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 11:3and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
Acts 11:3ἀκροβυστίαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's twenty uses are in Romans.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- uncircumcision20
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἄκρον | akron | end | Uses6 |
| ἀκροατής | akroates | hearer | Uses4 |
| ἀκρογωνιαῖος | akrogoniaios | cornerstone | Uses2 |
| ἀκροθίνιον | akrothinion | fine spoils | Uses1 |
| ἀκροατήριον | akroaterion | hall | Uses1 |
All 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings 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
- ἀκροβυστία9
- ἀκροβυστίᾳ6
- ἀκροβυστίαν3
- ἀκροβυστίας2
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular9N-NSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular6N-DSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular3N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
Acts
one use
and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
- ἀκροβυστίανakrobustiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
Romans
eleven uses
Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
- ἀκροβυστίαakrobustianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
- ἀκροβυστίαakrobustianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
- ἀκροβυστίαakrobustianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.
- ἀκροβυστίαakrobustianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
- ἀκροβυστίανakrobustiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.
- ἀκροβυστίανakrobustiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.
- ἀκροβυστίᾳakrobustianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
- ἀκροβυστίᾳakrobustianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
- ἀκροβυστίᾳakrobustianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
- ἀκροβυστίαςakrobustiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
- ἀκροβυστίᾳakrobustianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
1 Corinthians
two uses
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.
- ἀκροβυστίᾳakrobustianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
- ἀκροβυστίαakrobustianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
Galatians
three uses
On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted to preach the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised.
- ἀκροβυστίαςakrobustiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
- ἀκροβυστίαakrobustianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
- ἀκροβυστίαakrobustianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
Ephesians
one use
Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
- ἀκροβυστίαakrobustianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
Colossians
two uses
When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
- ἀκροβυστίᾳakrobustianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
- ἀκροβυστίαakrobustianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: uncircumcision
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.