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ἀκροβυστία

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
ἀκροβυστία, -ας, ἡ
Greek transliteration: 
akrobystia
Simplified transliteration: 
akrobystia
Numbers
Strong's number: 
203
GK Number: 
213
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
20
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-1a
Gloss: 
uncircumcision, foreskin; fig., not of the Mosaic covenant, a Gentile
Definition: 
foreskin; uncircumcision, the state of being uncircumcised, Rom. 4:10; the abstract being put for the concrete, uncircumcised men, i.e., Gentiles, Rom. 4:9, et al

Greek-English Concordance for ἀκροβυστία

Acts 11:3 saying, “You went to a house of uncircumcised (akrobystian | ἀκροβυστίαν | acc sg fem) men and ate with them.”
Romans 2:25 to be sure, circumcision is of value if you practice the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision (akrobystia | ἀκροβυστία | nom sg fem).
Romans 2:26 Therefore if the uncircumcised (akrobystia | ἀκροβυστία | nom sg fem) man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision (akrobystia | ἀκροβυστία | nom sg fem) be counted as circumcision?
Romans 2:27 And will not the one who by nature is uncircumcised (akrobystia | ἀκροβυστία | nom sg fem) yet fulfills the law judge you who have the written code and circumcision yet are a transgressor of the law?
Romans 3:30 Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised on the basis of their faith and the uncircumcised (akrobystian | ἀκροβυστίαν | acc sg fem) by the same faith.
Romans 4:9 Therefore, is this blessedness for the circumcised alone, or is it also for the uncircumcised (akrobystian | ἀκροβυστίαν | acc sg fem)? For we say, “It was to Abraham that faith was credited as righteousness.”
Romans 4:10 How then was it credited to him? Was it after he was circumcised or before? It was not after his circumcision but before.
Romans 4:11 He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised (akrobystia | ἀκροβυστίᾳ | dat sg fem), so that he would be the father of all who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too might have righteousness credited to them.
Romans 4:12 He is also the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had while he was still uncircumcised (akrobystia | ἀκροβυστίᾳ | dat sg fem).
1 Corinthians 7:18 If a man was already circumcised when he was called, he should not conceal his circumcision. If a man was not circumcised when he was called, he should not submit to circumcision.
1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision (akrobystia | ἀκροβυστία | nom sg fem) is nothing. Rather, it is keeping God’s commandments that counts.
Galatians 2:7 But on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised (akrobystias | ἀκροβυστίας | gen sg fem) just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the circumcised
Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision (akrobystia | ἀκροβυστία | nom sg fem) counts for anything, but only faith expressing itself through love.
Galatians 6:15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision (akrobystia | ἀκροβυστία | nom sg fem) is anything, but a new creation.
Ephesians 2:11 So remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision (akrobystia | ἀκροβυστία | nom sg fem) by those called the circumcision — made in the flesh by hands —
Colossians 2:13 And although you were dead although were in your trespasses and the uncircumcision (akrobystia | ἀκροβυστίᾳ | dat sg fem) of your flesh, your God made you alive you with Christ. He forgave us all our transgressions,
Colossians 3:11 Here there is no longer there is Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised (akrobystia | ἀκροβυστία | nom sg fem), barbarian, Scythian, slave and free, but Christ is all and in all. Christ