Word Summary
aphtharsia: incorruptibility
Original Word: ἀφθαρσίαTransliteration: aphtharsia
Phonetic Spelling: (af-thar-see'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: incorruptibility
Meaning: incorruptibility
Strong's Concordance
incorruptibility, immortality
From aphthartos; incorruptibility; genitive, unending existence; (figuratively) genuineness -- immortality, incorruption, sincerity.
see GREEK aphthartos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 861: ἀφθαρσίαἀφθαρσία,
ἀφθαρσίας,
ἡ (
ἄφθαρτος, cf.
ἀκαθαρσία) (
Tertullian and subsequent writings
incorruptibilitas,
Vulg.incorruptio (and
incorruptela)),
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).