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Headword: *)akrobusti/a
Adler number: alpha,1000
Translated headword: uncircumcision, having a foreskin
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] not to have been cut round [i.e. circumcised]. Circumcision is to have had the tip cut round.
Greek Original:
*)akrobusti/a: to\ mh\ peritetmh=sqai. peritomh\ de\ to\ peritetmh=sqai to\ a)/kron.
Notes:
LSJ recognise three related applications of this headword: to the foreskin itself (in e.g. Genesis 17.11 LXX, Acts 11.3), to the condition of having one (in e.g. Romans 2.25), and, collectively, to the uncircumcised (in e.g. Romans 2.26 and 3.30).
For circumcision, peritomh/, see more fully at pi 1325.
Keywords: Christianity; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; medicine; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 March 2000@02:49:18.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (Altered wording, added keywords.) on 9 June 2000@02:02:57.
David Whitehead (modified translation; added x-ref) on 10 June 2003@09:41:54.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 31 January 2012@08:56:44.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 26 April 2012@01:36:05.
David Whitehead on 21 May 2015@08:19:57.
David Whitehead on 15 August 2015@07:56:24.
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