Uncircumcised: Closed, Covered

Reading:   Exodus 6

To have a speech impediment (stammer etc.), or to struggle with oration in general, would constitute a covering of speech, the inability, wether self imposed or otherwise, to speak fluidly.  To cover something essentially means to close off, reduce openness.  In this particular verse I found myself hung up on the phrase, "uncircumcised lips" and did some checking...

EXODUS 6:12

12    And Moses spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips? 

As I have described above, the term "uncircumcised lips" means exactly as I have noted...closed, covered.  In this case, Moses questioned The Lord because he felt unable to speak.  Through the evil of self doubt, Moses equated his inability to sway even the people who professed to believe and follow God, the children of Israel, with a considered lack of persuasion.  How then could he possibly hope to find attentiveness and belief from the Pharaoh.

Another such term is "uncircumcised heart" which finds utterance with Jeremiah (Jer. 9:26), Stephen (Acts 7:51), Nephi (Hel. 9:21), and Jacob (2 Ne. 9:33). Again, using the idea of closed or covered, this term notes a person not open to the stirrings of the heart, the soul, which speaks to the things of God.

So, not to argue with the literary geniuses of the world, but, I disagree with dictionary.com and would propose, since the Bible dictates, that an additional meaning be added to the word "umcircumcised" the definition being: covered, closed, not open.  An appropriate sentence, outside of the Biblical realm, would be something like this: North Korea is an uncircumcised nation; unwilling to accommodate the teachings of Jesus Christ.

~Kipling