Lexicon athanasia: immortality Original Word: ἀθανασία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: athanasia Phonetic Spelling: (ath-an-as-ee'-ah) Short Definition: immortality Definition: immortality, imperishability, freedom from death. HELPS word-Studies 110 athanasía (from 1 /A "without" and 2288 /thánatos, "death") – properly, immortality (literally "without death, deathlessness"), referring to the unique glorification awarded to each believer by the Lord at His return (1 Cor 15:53,54). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and thanatosDefinitionimmortality NASB Translationimmortality (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 110: ἀθανασίαἀθανασία (ας ἡ ( ἀθάνατος), immortality: 1 Corinthians 15:53; 1 Timothy 6:16 where God is described as ὁ μόνος ἔχων ἀθανασίαν, because he possesses it essentially — ' ἐκ τῆς ὀικείας οὐσίας, οὐκ ἐκ θελήματος ἄλλου, καθάπερ οἱ λοιποί πάντες ἀθάνατοι Justin, quaest, et resp. ad orthod. 61, p. 84, Otto edition. (In Greek writings from Plato down.)
Strong's immortality. From a compound of a (as a negative particle) and thanatos; deathlessness -- immortality. see GREEK a see GREEK thanatos |
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