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Strong's #203 - ἀκροβυστία
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- having the foreskin, uncircumcised
- a Gentile
- a condition in which the corrupt desires rooted in the flesh were not yet extinct
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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.)
ἀκροβυστία, (ας, ἡ (a word unknown to the Greeks, who used ἡ 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; 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 equiv. to a Gentile: Romans 2:26{a};
c. in a transferred sense: ἡ 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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† 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.†
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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. ";
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