Word Summary
athanasia: immortality
Original Word: ἀθανασίαTransliteration: athanasia
Phonetic Spelling: (ath-an-as-ee'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: immortality
Meaning: immortality
Strong's Concordance
immortality.
From a compound of a (as a negative particle) and thanatos; deathlessness -- immortality.
see GREEK a
see GREEK thanatos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 110: ἀθανασίαἀθανασία (ας ἡ (
ἀθάνατος),
immortality:
1 Corinthians 15:53;
1 Timothy 6:16 where God is described as
ὁ μόνος ἔχων ἀθανασίαν, because he possesses it essentially — '
ἐκ τῆς ὀικείας οὐσίας,
οὐκ ἐκ θελήματος ἄλλου,
καθάπερ οἱ λοιποί πάντες ἀθάνατοι Justin,
quaest, et resp. ad orthod. 61, p. 84, Otto edition. (In Greek writings from
Plato down.)