Uncircumcised; Uncircumcision
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia · James Orr and contributors
un-sur'-kum-sizd, un-sur-kum-sizh'-un: The adjective in the Old Testament is `arel (Ge 17:14, etc.), from a root of uncertain meaning, with the noun `orlah, "uncircumcised (person)" (Le 19:23; Jer 9:25), and the verb `aral, "count as uncircumcised" (Le 19:23; the Revised Version (British and American) Hab 2:16). In the Apocrypha and the New Testament the noun is akrobustia (a physiological term, 1 Macc 1:15; Ac 11:3, etc.), and the adjective aperitmetos (Additions to Esther 14:15; 1 Macc 1:48; 2:46; Ac 7:51), with the verb epispaomai, "become uncircumcised" (1Co 7:18). The language of 1 Macc 1:15 suggests the performance of some surgical operation, but no such operation appears to be possible, and "behaved like uncircumcised persons" (as in 1Co 7:18) is the probable meaning.
See CIRCUMCISION.
Burton Scott Easton
In other dictionaries
Read “Circumcise” in the 8 dictionaries- CircumciseEaston’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
- CircumcisionEaston’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
- UncircumcisedEaston’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
- UncircumcisionEaston’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
- CircumcisionInternational Standard Bible Encyclopedia
- CircumcisionSmith’s Bible Dictionary
- circumcise, circumcised, circumcision, uncircumcised, uncircumcisionTranslation Words
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
Bible Strong digital edition from CrossWire module 2.2; historical scholarship originally published in 1915