Lexical Summary amarantinos: unfading Original Word: ἀμαράντινοςTransliteration: amarantinos Phonetic Spelling: (am-ar-an'-tee-nos) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: unfading Meaning: unfading Strong's Concordance unfadingFrom amarantos; "amaranthine", i.e. (by implication) fadeless -- that fadeth not away. see GREEK amarantos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 262: ἀμαράντινοςἀμαράντινος, (from ἀμάραντος, as ῥόδινος made of roses, from ῤόδον, a rose; cf. ἀκάνθινος), composed of amaranth (a flower, so called because it never withers or fades, and when plucked off revives if moistened with water; hence, it is a symbol of perpetuity and immortality (see Paradise Lost iii., 353ff); Pliny, h. n. 21 (15), 23 (others 47)): στέφανος, 1 Peter 5:4. (Found besides only in Philostr. her. 19, p. 741; (and (conjecturally) in Boeckh, Corp. Inscriptions 155, 39, circa |
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