Uncircumcised, Uncircumcision
Uncircumcised, Uncircumcision
un-surkum-szd, un-sur-kum-sizhun: The adjective in the Old Testament is , arel (Gen 17:14, etc.), from a root of uncertain meaning, with the noun , orlah, uncircumcised (person) (Lev 19:23; Jer 9:25), and the verb , aral, count as uncircumcised (Lev 19:23; the Revised Version (British and American) Hab 2:16). In the Apocrypha and the New Testament the noun is , akrobusta (a physiological term, 1 Macc 1:15; Act 11:3, etc.), and the adjective , apertmetos (Additions to Esther 14:15; 1 Macc 1:48; 2:46; Act 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.