Original Word: ἀπερίτμητος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: aperitmétos
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-er-eet'-may-tos)
Short Definition: uncircumcised, unclean
Definition: uncircumcised.

564 aperítmētos (from 1 /A "without" and 4059 /peritémnō, "circumcise") – properly, "not cut around," referring to an uncircumcised male organ. 564 /aperítmētos ("uncircumcised") signifies "alienated from God" (rebelliously opposed to Him).

564 (aperítmētos), only used at Ac 7:51, figuratively refers to the unsaved – i.e. people standing outside (disobedient to) God's covenant.

[564 (aperítmētos) literally refers to an uncircumcised foreskin, which stands for "being outside of God's covenant" – i.e. without the promise of His salvation.]

STRONGS NT 564: ἀπερίτμητος

ἀπερίτμητος, ἀπεριτμητον (περιτέμνω), uncircumcised; metaphorically, ἀπερίτμητοι τῇ καρδία (Jeremiah 9:26; Ezekiel 44:7) καί τοῖς ὠσί (Jeremiah 6:10) whose heart and ears are covered, i. e. whose soul and senses are closed to divine admonitions, obdurate, Acts 7:51. (Often in the Sept. for עָרֵל; 1 Macc. 1:48 1 Macc. 2:46; (Philo de migr. Abr. § 39); Plutarch, am. prol. 3.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

uncircumcised.

From a (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of peritemno; uncircumcised (figuratively) -- uncircumcised.

see GREEK a

see GREEK peritemno

Forms and Transliterations

απερίτμητα απεριτμητοι απερίτμητοι ἀπερίτμητοι απερίτμητος απεριτμήτου απεριτμήτους απεριτμήτων aperitmetoi aperitmētoi aperítmetoi aperítmētoi

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