ἀκροβυστία akrobustia

Greek word for “uncircumcision” · Strong’s G203 · used 20 times in 17 verses

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Meaning

ἀκροβυστία, -ας, ή; (perh.

How it is translated

Glosses given for akrobustia in context, with how often each is used:

• uncircumcision 18
• uncircumcision? 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Romans 4 (4), Romans 2 (3), 1 Corinthians 7 (2), Acts 11 (1), Romans 3 (1), Galatians 2 (1), Galatians 5 (1), Galatians 6 (1), Ephesians 2 (1), Colossians 2 (1)

Forms

• ἀκροβυστία 9
• ἀκροβυστίᾳ 6
• ἀκροβυστίαν 3
• ἀκροβυστίας 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with akrobustia more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• περιτομή peritomē “circumcision” 14
• λογίζομαι logizomai “to count” 4
• πίστις pistis “faith” 5
• παραβάτης parabatēs “transgresor” 2
• νόμος nomos “law” 3
• οὔτε oute “neither” 2
• Ἀβραάμ Abraam “Abraham” 2
• δικαιοσύνη dikaiosunē “righteousness” 2
• σάρξ sarx “flesh” 2
• πιστεύω pisteuō “to trust (in)” 2
• ἤ ē “or” 2
• ἐάν ean “if” 2

Key verses

The verses using akrobustia that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Romans 2:25 — For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
• Romans 2:27 — And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
• Romans 3:30 — Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
• Romans 4:11 — And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all…
• Romans 4:12 — And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had…
• 1 Corinthians 7:19 — Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
• Galatians 2:7 — But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
• Galatians 5:6 — For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
• Galatians 6:15 — For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
• Ephesians 2:11 — Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made…
• Colossians 2:13 — And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
• Colossians 3:11 — Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.