Strong's Number G1986

Transliteration:

epispaomai{ep-ee-spah'-om-ahee}

Word Origin:

from 1909 and 4685

Part of Speech:

verb

Usage in the KJV:

become circumcised 1

Total: 1

Definition:

to draw on (let him not draw on his foreskin) From the days of Antiochus Epiphanes [B.C. 175-164] down, there had been Jews who, in order to conceal from heathen persecutors or scoffers the external sign of their nationality, circumcision, 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 glands.