Word 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
unfading
From 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
).)