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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

UNCIRCUMCISED; UNCIRCUMCISION

un-sur'-kum-sizd, un-sur-kum-sizh'-un: The adjective in the Old Testament is `arel (Genesis 17:14, etc.), from a root of uncertain meaning, with the noun `orlah, "uncircumcised (person)" (Leviticus 19:23 Jeremiah 9:25), and the verb `aral, "count as uncircumcised" (Leviticus 19:23; the Revised Version (British and American) Habakkuk 2:16). In the Apocrypha and the New Testament the noun is akrobustia (a physiological term, 1 Maccabees 1:15; Acts 11:3, etc.), and the adjective aperitmetos (Additions to Esther 14:15; 1 Maccabees 1:48; 2:46; Acts 7:51), with the verb epispaomai, "become uncircumcised" (1 Corinthians 7:18). The language of 1 Maccabees 1:15 suggests the performance of some surgical operation, but no such operation appears to be possible, and "behaved like uncircumcised persons" (as in 1 Corinthians 7:18) is the probable meaning.

See CIRCUMCISION.

Burton Scott Easton

Greek

203. akrobustia -- the prepuce, foreskin, hence uncircumcision
... the prepuce, foreskin, hence uncircumcision. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: akrobustia Phonetic Spelling: (ak-rob-oos-tee'-ah) Short Definition ...
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Library

Neither do they Confess that they are Awed by those Citations from ...
... Is any called in uncircumcision? ... Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision
is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. ...
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Ephesians ii. 11, 12
... 11, 12 "Wherefore remember, that aforetime ye the Gentiles in the flesh, who are
called Uncircumcision by that which is ... "Who are called Uncircumcision." [226]. ...
/.../homily v ephesians ii 11.htm

Keeping the Law; the Jews' Glorying; the Fear of Punishment; the ...
... Circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law; but if thou be a breaker
of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 13 viii keeping the law.htm

Rom. Ii. 17, 18
... "when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision?" For so long as it is struggling
against the Gentile and the uncircumcised, he is unwilling to say aught of ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily vi rom ii 17.htm

The Case of Abraham, and Its Bearing on the Present Question.
... His digamy began with circumcision, his monogamy with uncircumcision. ... You
retain uncircumcision; you are bound to monogamy too. ...
/.../tertullian/on monogamy/chapter vi the case of abraham.htm

Both Covenants were Prefigured in Abraham, and in the Labour of ...
... who did also receive the covenant of circumcision, after that justification by faith
which had pertained to him, when he was yet in uncircumcision, so that in ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xxv both covenants were prefigured.htm

How the Passage of the Law Agrees with that of the Prophet.
... not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart." [943] For thus do they
become of the house of Israel, when their uncircumcision is accounted ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 46 how the passage of.htm

Righteousness is the Gift of God.
... [975] "For it is one God which justifies the circumcision by faith, and the
uncircumcision through faith;" [976] in which clauses there is no real difference ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 50 xxix righteousness is the.htm

But I Shall Also Offer, to the Best of My Ability...
... says, "Or seek ye a proof of that Christ who speaketh in me?" [1938] What have I
then to do with circumcision, seeing that I may be justified in uncircumcision ...
/.../the acts of the disputation with the heresiarch manes/42 but i shall also.htm

The Situation after the Council of Nicæa.
... of the Law on those born under it (which S. Paul never directly assailed, 1 Corinthians
7:18) recognised the Gospel of the uncircumcision as legitimate. ...
/.../athanasius/select works and letters or athanasius/section 3 2 the situation.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The absence or want of circumcision.

2. (n.) People not circumcised; the Gentiles.

Thesaurus

Uncircumcision (19 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. UNCIRCUMCISED; UNCIRCUMCISION. ... See CIRCUMCISION.
Burton Scott Easton. Multi-Version Concordance Uncircumcision (19 Occurrences) ...
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Reckoned (98 Occurrences)
... (WEY DBY YLT). Romans 2:26 If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of
the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision? ...
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Uncircumcised (48 Occurrences)
... UNCIRCUMCISED; UNCIRCUMCISION. ... Romans 2:26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the
ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? ...
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Counted (122 Occurrences)
... Romans 2:26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't
his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? (Root in WEB KJV WBS). ...
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Counts (15 Occurrences)
... (WEY). 1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing,
but the keeping of the commandments of God. (See RSV NIV). ...
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Accounted (32 Occurrences)
... (KJV ASV WBS YLT). Romans 2:26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances
of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? (WEB). ...
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Circumcised (58 Occurrences)
... (WEY NIV). Romans 2:26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of
the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? ...
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Circumcision (98 Occurrences)
... Romans 2:25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if
you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision...
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Keeps (154 Occurrences)
... Romans 2:26 If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep,
shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned? (See NAS RSV). ...
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Keepeth (60 Occurrences)
... (KJV ASV WBS). Romans 2:26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision keepeth the righteousness
of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? ...
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Bible Concordance

Uncircumcision (19 Occurrences)

Romans 2:25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Romans 2:26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Romans 2:27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Romans 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Romans 4:9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Romans 4:10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Romans 4:11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
(WEB ASV DBY YLT)

Romans 4:12 The father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
(WEB ASV DBY YLT)

1 Corinthians 7:18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Galatians 2:7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Galatians 5:11 And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;
(YLT)

Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ephesians 2:11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Colossians 2:13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Colossians 3:11 where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 19:23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as their uncircumcision: three years shall they be as uncircumcised unto you; it shall not be eaten.
(ASV)

Jeremiah 9:25 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in their uncircumcision:
(WEB JPS ASV)

Subtopics

Uncircumcision

Uncircumcision: General Scriptures Concerning

Uncircumcision: Uncircumcised Heart (Metaphorically)

Related Terms

Reckoned (98 Occurrences)

Uncircumcised (48 Occurrences)

Counted (122 Occurrences)

Counts (15 Occurrences)

Accounted (32 Occurrences)

Circumcised (58 Occurrences)