Lexicon aphtharsia: incorruptibility Original Word: ἀφθαρσία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: aphtharsia Phonetic Spelling: (af-thar-see'-ah) Short Definition: indestructibility, incorruptibility, immortality Definition: indestructibility, incorruptibility; hence: immortality. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 861 aphtharsía – properly, no-corruption (unable to experience deterioration); incorruptibility (not perishable), i.e. lacking the very capacity to decay or constitutionally break down. See 862a (aphthartos). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom aphthartosDefinitionincorruptibility NASB Translationimmortality (2), imperishable (4), incorruptible (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 861: ἀφθαρσίαἀφθαρσία, ἀφθαρσίας, ἡ ( ἄφθαρτος, cf. ἀκαθαρσία) ( Tertullian and subsequent writings incorruptibilitas, Vulg.incorruptio (and incorruptela)), incorruption, perpetuity: τοῦ κόσμου, Philo de incorr. round. § 11; it is ascribed to τό θεῖον in Plutarch, Aristotle, c. 6; of the body of man exempt from decay after the resurrection, 1 Corinthians 15:42 ( ἐν ἀφθαρσία, namely, ὄν), 50, 53f; of a blessed immortality (Wis. 2:23 Wis. 6:19; 4 Macc. 17:12), Romans 2:7; 2 Timothy 1:10. τινα ἀγαπᾶν ἐν ἀφθαρσία to love one with never diminishing love, Ephesians 6:24 (cf. Meyer at the passage The word seems to have the meaning purity, sincerity, incorruptness in Titus 2:7 Rec.st).
Strong's incorruptibility, immortality From aphthartos; incorruptibility; genitive, unending existence; (figuratively) genuineness -- immortality, incorruption, sincerity. see GREEK aphthartos |
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