Lexicon amarantos: unfading Original Word: ἀμάραντος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: amarantos Phonetic Spelling: (am-ar'-an-tos) Short Definition: unfading Definition: unfading, enduring. HELPS word-Studies 263 amárantos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "without" and 3133 /maraínō, "to fade") – properly, what will not fade (imperishable). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and marainóDefinitionunfading NASB Translationfade away (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 263: ἀμάραντοςἀμάραντος, (from μαραίνω; cf. ἀμίαντος, ἄφαντος, etc.), not fading away, unfading, perennial; Vulg.immarcescibilis: (hence, the name of the flower ( Dioscorides ( ?) 4, 57, others); see ἀμαράντινος): 1 Peter 1:4. Found elsewhere only in Wis. 6:13; (ζωή ἀμάραντος Sibylline 8, 411; Boeckh, Corp. Inscriptions ii., p. 1124, no. 2942 c, 4; Lucian, Dom. c. 9).
Strong's unfading, permanent From a (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of maraino; unfading, i.e. (by implication) perpetual -- that fadeth not away. see GREEK a see GREEK maraino |
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