Word Summary
amarantos: unfading
Original Word: ἀμάραντοςTransliteration: amarantos
Phonetic Spelling: (am-ar'-an-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: unfading
Meaning: unfading
Strong's Concordance
unfading, permanent
From a (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of maraino; unfading, i.e. (by implication) perpetual -- that fadeth not away.
see GREEK a
see GREEK maraino
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 263: ἀμάραντοςἀμάραντος, (from
μαραίνω; cf.
ἀμίαντος,
ἄφαντος, etc.),
not fading away, unfading, perennial;
Vulg.immarcescibilis: (hence, the name of the flower (
Dioscorides (
?) 4, 57, others); see ἀμαράντινος): 1 Peter 1:4. Found elsewhere only in Wis. 6:13; (ζωή ἀμάραντος Sibylline 8, 411; Boeckh, Corp. Inscriptions ii., p. 1124, no. 2942 c, 4; Lucian, Dom. c. 9).