σαρκὸς (sarkos) in Colossians 2:13: Noun Genitive Singular Feminine

Noun: the word names a substance or reality, here the concept of flesh in a genitive form.

Genitive: the form usually marks a relationship to another noun, here linking 'flesh' to 'uncircumcision'.

Singular: the form is grammatically singular in this occurrence and points to one shared condition or sphere.

Feminine: the noun belongs to the feminine grammatical class, which does not by itself create any gendered theological claim.

τῇ ἀκροβυστίᾳ

The genitive phrase τῆς σαρκὸς ὑμῶν describes the uncircumcision as belonging to or characterized by your flesh. The grammar supports a close relationship, but context decides the exact nuance.

It functions as the dependent genitive within the phrase, helping specify what kind of uncircumcision is in view and tying the phrase to the readers' bodily or human condition.

It does not by itself make 'flesh' the main action of the verse, and it does not require a moral verdict beyond what the surrounding sentence supplies.

High: The genitive flesh phrase describes the readers' former condition before God made them alive with Christ.

Genitive noun modifying the uncircumcision phrase. describes the uncircumcision as belonging to or characterized by flesh. Attached to the uncircumcision of your flesh phrase. Governed by the uncircumcision noun phrase. The form supports the former-condition description, while the main clause emphasizes God's life-giving action.

What condition is tied to the readers' former deadness? The phrase names the uncircumcision of their flesh as part of that former condition.

Direct: The form directly supports of your flesh in the phrase.

The genitive relation should not be used apart from the sentence's movement from deadness to being made alive. Feminine grammatical gender is noun class and not a biological or theological claim.

Flesh grammar overrides the made-alive-with-Christ emphasis: The form describes the former condition; the main clause centers on God's action in Christ.

The witness reads σαρκὸς in Colossians 2:13 within the phrase τῆς σαρκὸς ὑμῶν, after τῇ ἀκροβυστίᾳ and before the main verb συνεζωοποίησε.

The lemma is σάρξ, commonly glossed as flesh, body, or the material human condition depending on context.

The genitive singular links flesh to the preceding noun and most naturally marks a describing relationship. In this sentence it supports the idea that the readers were dead while still in a state marked by uncircumcision of the flesh.

The verse presents divine action toward people who were spiritually dead and identified by their former uncircumcised flesh, then says God made them alive with Christ and forgave their sins.

Within the wider canon, this wording can fit themes of human weakness, embodied life, and the contrast between old condition and divine renewal without reducing the term to one fixed theological slogan.

For teaching or translation, the form helps readers hear that the phrase is relational and descriptive, not a separate event. It should be rendered in a way that keeps the connection to the readers' former condition clear.

Do not derive a full doctrine from case alone, do not make grammatical gender into a biological or theological claim, and do not let morphology override the sentence's flow and argument.