861. aphtharsia

Strong's Concordance

aphtharsia: incorruptibility

Original Word: ἀφθαρσία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: aphtharsia
Phonetic Spelling: (af-thar-see'-ah)
Definition: incorruptibility
Usage: 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 Origin
from aphthartos
Definition
incorruptibility
NASB Translation
immortality (2), imperishable (4), incorruptible (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 861: ἀφθαρσία

ἀφθαρσία, ἀφθαρσίας, ἡ (ἄφθαρτος, cf. ἀκαθαρσία) (Tertullian and subsequent writingsincorruptibilitas, Vulg.incorruptio (andincorruptela)), 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 Exhaustive Concordance

incorruptibility, immortality

From aphthartos; incorruptibility; genitive, unending existence; (figuratively) genuineness -- immortality, incorruption, sincerity.

see GREEK aphthartos

Forms and Transliterations

αφθαρσια αφθαρσία ἀφθαρσίᾳ αφθαρσιαν αφθαρσίαν ἀφθαρσίαν αφθοριαν ἀφθορίαν aphtharsia aphtharsíāi aphtharsian aphtharsían aphthorian aphthorían

Englishman's Concordance

Romans 2:7 N-AFS
GRK: τιμὴν καὶ ἀφθαρσίαν ζητοῦσιν ζωὴν
NAS: and honor and immortality, eternal
KJV: honour and immortality, eternal life:
INT: honor and immortality are seeking life

1 Corinthians 15:42 N-DFS
GRK: ἐγείρεται ἐν ἀφθαρσίᾳ
NAS: [body], it is raised an imperishable [body];
KJV: it is raised in incorruption:
INT: it is raised in immortality

1 Corinthians 15:50 N-AFS
GRK: φθορὰ τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν κληρονομεῖ
NAS: inherit the imperishable.
KJV: corruption inherit incorruption.
INT: decay the immortality does inherit

1 Corinthians 15:53 N-AFS
GRK: τοῦτο ἐνδύσασθαι ἀφθαρσίαν καὶ τὸ
NAS: put on the imperishable, and this
KJV: must put on incorruption, and this
INT: this to put on imperishable and the

1 Corinthians 15:54 Noun-AFS
GRK: ἐνδύσηται τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν καὶ τὸ
INT: shall have put on the imperishable and the

Ephesians 6:24 N-DFS
GRK: Χριστὸν ἐν ἀφθαρσίᾳ
NAS: Christ with incorruptible [love].
KJV: Christ in sincerity. Amen.
INT: Christ in incorruption

2 Timothy 1:10 N-AFS
GRK: ζωὴν καὶ ἀφθαρσίαν διὰ τοῦ
NAS: life and immortality to light
KJV: life and immortality to light through
INT: life and immortality by the

Titus 2:7 N-AFS
GRK: τῇ διδασκαλίᾳ ἀφθορίαν σεμνότητα
KJV: gravity, sincerity,
INT: teaching uncorruptness dignity

Strong's Greek 861
8 Occurrences

ἀφθαρσίᾳ — 2 Occ.
ἀφθαρσίαν — 5 Occ.
ἀφθορίαν — 1 Occ.