Epispaomai means “become uncircumcised” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1986 — halam (“overcome”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1986 ἐπισπάομαι (epispaomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. epispaomai (ep-ee-spah'-om-ai) v. 1. to draw over, i.e. efface the mark of circumcision (by recovering with the foreskin) {(with G203 implied)} It has 12 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include become. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
epispaomai (ep-ee-spah'-om-ai) v. 1. to draw over, i.e. efface the mark of circumcision (by recovering with the foreskin) {(with G203 implied)} [from G1909 and G4685] KJV: become uncircumcised Root(s): G1909, G4685 See also: G203
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1986. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to uncircumcise
Usage: ἐπι-σπάω, -ῶ [in LXX: Isa.5:18 (מָשַׁךְ), etc. ;] to draw on: mid., in peculiar sense of effacing signs of Judaism (cf. 1Ma.1:15, FlJ, Ant., xii, 5, i; see Thayer, see word), to become as uncircumcised: 1Co.7:18.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render epispaomai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1986 (ἐπισπάομαι) appears 11 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And she caught hold of him by his clothes, and said, Lie with me; and having left his clothes in her hands, he fled, and went forth.
Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer’s yoke:
Draw thee water for a siege, and well secure thy strongholds: enter into the clay, and be thou trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For, lo, it will be a shame for our person, if we shall let such a woman go, not having had her company; for if we draw her not unto us, she will laugh us to scorn.
Now in the hundred threescore and twelfth year King Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media, to get him help to fight against Trypho.
Some of the neighbors, friends, and fellow dealers of the Jews, even called them secretly to an interview, pledged them their assistance, and promised to do their very utmost for them.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1986.
And she caught hold of him by his clothes, and said, Lie with me; and having left his clothes in her hands, he fled, and went forth.
Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer’s yoke:
Draw thee water for a siege, and well secure thy strongholds: enter into the clay, and be thou trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.
Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
For, lo, it will be a shame for our person, if we shall let such a woman go, not having had her company; for if we draw her not unto us, she will laugh us to scorn.
Now in the hundred threescore and twelfth year King Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media, to get him help to fight against Trypho.
Some of the neighbors, friends, and fellow dealers of the Jews, even called them secretly to an interview, pledged them their assistance, and promised to do their very utmost for them.
commanded his spearbearers to seize every one of the Hebrews, and to compel them to taste swine’s flesh, and things offered to idols.
after they with the iron hands had violently dragged all the flesh from the neck to the chin, the panther-like beasts tore off the very skin of his head: but he, bearing with firmness this misery, said,
And thus having died worthily of his brethren, they dragged forward the fourth, saying,
Seek not death in the error of your life: And pull not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.
For while they were yet mourning And making lamentation at the graves of the dead, They added another foolish device, And pursued them as fugitives, whom they had entreated to be gone.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1986, grouped by book.
Epispaomai (Strong's G1986) is a Greek word most simply glossed "become uncircumcised". epispaomai (ep-ee-spah'-om-ai) v. 1. to draw over, i.e. efface the mark of circumcision (by recovering with the foreskin) {(with G203 implied)}
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G1986 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1986 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as become. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1986, with linked reader references where each row is available.