Strong's Number G1986

ἐπισπάομαι

epispaomai · ep-ee-spah'-om-ahee

Transliteration:

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

Word Origin:

from 1909 and 4685

Part of Speech:

verb

Strong's Definition:

to draw over, i.e. (with G203 (ἀκροβυστία) implied) efface the mark of circumcision (by recovering with the foreskin)

Usage in the KJV:

become circumcised 1

Total: 1
Occurs 1 times in the Greek text.

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.