Lexical Summary athanasia: immortality Original Word: ἀθανασίαTransliteration: athanasia Phonetic Spelling: (ath-an-as-ee'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: immortality Meaning: immortality Strong's Concordance immortality. From a compound of a (as a negative particle) and thanatos; deathlessness -- immortality. see GREEK a see GREEK thanatos Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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.) |
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