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ἐπισπάομαι

epispáomai · G1986 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to conceal circumcision, to extend the foreskin

    (A technical and medical term) To pull the foreskin over the end of the penis as a means of concealing former circumcision

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 7:18 Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised.

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Contrasting words 1 word
περιτέμνω peritémnō · G4059 · to circumcise, circumcision
ἐπισπάομαι denotes the action of concealing or reversing the visible mark of circumcision by drawing the foreskin forward, while περιτέμνω denotes the opposite action of performing circumcision itself by cutting away the foreskin. The two verbs describe mutually exclusive physical procedures.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To conceal circumcision, to extend the foreskin53.52
Paul asks in 1 Corinthians 7:18, “Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised,” ἐπισπάομαι naming the practice, undertaken by some Hellenizing Jews, of surgically disguising circumcision to appear uncircumcised.
Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

σπάω spáō · G4685 · to pull, to drag, to draw · 2×ἀσπάζομαι aspázomai · G782 · to greet, to send greetings · 59×ἀσπασμός aspasmós · G783 · greetings · 10×ἀποσπάω apospáō · G645 · to pull out, to draw out, to drag · 5×ἀνασπάω anaspáō · G385 · to pull up, to draw up · 2×διασπάω diaspáō · G1288 · to pull apart, to tear apart · 2×ἀπερισπάστως aperispástōs · G563 · without distraction, not distracting · 1×ἐπισπάομαιepispáomai · G1986περισπάω perispáō · G4049 · to be overburdened and worried, to be distracted and anxious · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐπίσπω: from Aeschylus down; to draw on: μή ἐπισπάσθω, namely, ἀκροβυστίαν, let him not…
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), 1 Cor 7:18. From the days of Antiochus Epiphanes () down (1 Macc. 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 מְשׁוּכִים, from מָשַׁך 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.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Dedicate, Consecrate1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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