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ἄφθαρτος

áphthartos · G862 · Greek · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. imperishable, immortal

    Pertaining to being not subject to decay and death

    Examples

    Romans 1:23 and they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible mankind, of birds, four-footed animals, and crawling creatures.

    1 Corinthians 9:25 Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. So they do it to obtain a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

    1 Corinthians 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 1 entry
Imperishable, immortal23.128
Used of a state free from decay or death, as of the incorruptible God in Romans 1:23, the imperishable wreath sought in athletic competition in 1 Corinthians 9:25, and the imperishable resurrection body in 1 Corinthians 15:52.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

φθείρω phtheírō · G5351 · to destroy, to cause harm, to ruin · 9×φθορά phthorá · G5356 · ruin, destruction, to rot · 9×ἄφθαρτοςáphthartos · G862ἀφθαρσία aphtharsía · G861 · immortal, immortality, unceasing · 7×φθαρτός phthartós · G5349 · perishable, mortal · 6×καταφθείρω kataphtheírō · G2704 · to deprave, to pervert, to ruin · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἄφθαρτον (φθείρω), uncorrupted, not liable to corruption or decay, imperishable: of…
ἄφθαρτον (φθείρω), uncorrupted, not liable to corruption or decay, imperishable: of things, 1 Cor 9:25; 1 Pet 1:4, 1 Pet 1:23; 1 Pet 3:4; (ἄφθαρτος κήρυγμα τῆς αἰωνίου σωτηρίας, Mark 16 WH in (rejected) 'Shorter Conclusion'). immortal: of the risen dead, 1 Cor 15:52; of God, Rom 1:23; 1 Tim 1:17. (Wis. 12:1 Wis. 18:4. (Aristotle), Plutarch, Lucian, others. (Cf. Trench, § lxviii.).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Live, Die7 occurrences

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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