ἀφθαρσία
aphtharsía · G861 · Greek · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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immortal, immortality
The state of not being subject to decay, leading to death
ExamplesRomans 2:7 to those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life;
1 Corinthians 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I say this, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
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unceasing, always, eternally, undying
A continuous state or process, with the implication that the state or process in question is not interrupted by death
ExamplesEphesians 6:24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἐνδύωto put on, to clothe 2
- ζητέωto seek, to look for 1
- κληρονομέωto inherit 1
- φωτίζωto illuminate 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 4
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Immortal, immortality23.127
- Used of unending life, as of the imperishable body believers are raised with in 1 Corinthians 15:42, 15:53, and 15:54, and of immortality sought by perseverance in Romans 2:7.
- Unceasing, always, eternally, undying68.57
- Used of a state without end, as of the imperishable inheritance believers cannot receive apart from putting on immortality in 1 Corinthians 15:50.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀφθαρσίας, ἡ (ἄφθαρτος, cf. ἀκαθαρσία) (Tertullian and subsequent…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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