G1986
G1986 — ἐπισπάομαι
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
epispaomai (ep-ee-spah'-om-ai) v.
1. to draw over, i.e. efface the mark of circumcision (by recovering with the foreskin)
{(with G203 implied)}
[from G1909 and G4685]
KJV: become uncircumcised
Root(s): G1909, G4685
See also: G203
TWOT
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KJV Renderings
become uncircumcised
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐπισπάω, ἐπίσπω: from Aeschylus down; to draw on: μή ἐπισπάσθω, namely, ἀκροβυστίαν, let him not draw on his foreskin (Hesychius μή ἐπισπάσθω. Μή ἑλκυέτω τό δέρμα) (A. V. let him not become uncircumcised), 1Co 7:18. From the days of Antiochus Epiphanes () down (1Ma 1:15; Josephus, Antiquities 12, 5, 1), there had been Jews who, in order to conceal from heathen persecutors or scoffers the external sign of their nationality, sought artificially to compel nature to reproduce the prepuce, by extending or drawing forward with an iron instrument the remnant of it still left, so as to cover the glans. The rabbis called such persons îÀùÑåÌëÄéí, from îÈùÇÑê to draw out, see Buxtorf, Lex. Talm., p. 1274 ((edited by Fischer ii., 645f). Cf. BB. DD. under the word , especially McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia, ibid. II. 2.)
STRONGS NT 1986a: ἐπισπείρωἐπισπείρω: 1 aorist ἐπεσπειρα; to sow above or besides: Mat 13:25 L T Tr WH. (Herodotus, Theophrastus, (others).)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
ἐπισπάομαι (become uncircumcised)
1 Corinthians 7:18
- KJV: Is any man called being circumcised let him not become uncircumcised Is any called in uncircumcision let him not be circumcised
- GK: περιτετμημένος τις εκλήθη μη επισπάσθω εν ακροβυστία τις εκλήθη μη περιτεμνέσθω