Original Word: ἀμάραντος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: amarantos
Pronunciation: ah-MAH-rahn-tos
Phonetic Spelling: (am-ar'-an-tos)
KJV: that fadeth not away
NASB: fade away
Word Origin: [from G1 (α - Alpha) (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of G3133 (μαραίνω - fade away)]

1. unfading
2. (by implication) perpetual

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

263 amárantos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "without" and 3133 /maraínō, "to fade") – properly, what will not fade (imperishable).

Word Origin
from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and marainó
Definition
unfading
NASB Translation
fade away (1).

STRONGS NT 263: ἀμάραντος

ἀμάραντος, (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).

Forms and Transliterations

αμαραντον αμάραντον ἀμάραντον amaranton amáranton

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