Akrobustia ἀκροβυστία

Akrobustia (Greek ἀκροβυστία, Strong's G203) is a Greek feminine noun meaning “uncircumcision”. It occurs 20 times in 17 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Akrobustia, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Acts

• Acts 11:3
  Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

Romans

• 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.Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
• Romans 2:26
  Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
• 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?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.
• Romans 3:30
  Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
• 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.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.
• Romans 4:10
  How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.
• 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 them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: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.
• 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 being yet uncircumcised.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.

1 Corinthians

• 1 Corinthians 7:18
  Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.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.
• 1 Corinthians 7:19
  Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

Galatians

• 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;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.
• Galatians 5:6
  For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
• Galatians 6:15
  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.

Ephesians

• 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 by hands;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)—

Colossians

• 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;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,
• 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.Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).