Quick Definition
ἀφθαρσία, ας, ἡ n.f. indestructibility, incorruptibility, immortality
Strong's Definition
from 862; incorruptibility; genitive, unending existence; (figuratively) genuineness
KJV Usage: immortality, incorruption, sincerity
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | ἀ- + φθείρω
23.127 · Physiological Processes and States · Live, Die
immortal, immortality the state of not being subject to decay, leading to death It is possible to translate this clause as ‘it will be raised and will never again die.’
In rendering ‘immortality’ it may be necessary to employ an entire clause, for example, ‘that people will not die.’ However, in 2TI 1:10 ‘life and immortality’ may be best understood as a phrase in which ‘immortality’ is a qualification of ‘life,’ and therefore one may translate ‘revealing immortal life through the gospel’ or ‘revealing by means of the good news the life that does not end.’
ROM 2:7 · 1CO 15:42 · 1CO 15:50 · 1CO 15:53 · 1CO 15:54 · 2TI 1:10
68.57 · Aspect · Cease, Stop
unceasing, always, eternally, undying a continuous state or process, with the implication that the state or process in question is not interrupted by death A number of scholars, however, insist that ἀφθαρσία in EPH 6:24 must be understood in the sense of ‘immortality’ or ‘eternity’ as a temporal expression, but one which can be rendered as ‘with undying love.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀφθαρσία, -as, ἡ, (ἄφθαρτος, cf. ἀκαθαρσία), (Tertull. and subseq. writ. incorruptibilitas, Vulg. incorruptio [and incorruptela]), incorruption, perpetuity: τοῦ κόσμου, Philo de incorr. mund. § 11; it is ascribed to τὸ θεῖον in Plut. Arist. ο. 6; of the body of man exempt from decay after the resurrection, 1 Co. xv. 42 (ἐν apé. se. ὄν), 50, 53 sq.; of a blessed immortality (Sap. ii. 23; vi. 19; 4 Mace. xvii. 12), Ro. ii. 7; 2 Tim. i. 10. τινὰ ἀγαπᾶν ἐν ἀφθαρcia to love one with never diminishing love, Eph. vi. 24 [cf. Mey. ad loc. The word seems to have the meauing purity, sincerity, incorruptness in Tit. ii. 7 Ree.**].
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀφθαρσία aphtharsia 7x
incorruptibility, 1 Cor. 15:42, 53, 54; immortality, Rom. 2:7; 2 Tim. 1:10; soundness, purity; ἐν ἀφθαρσίᾳ, purely, sincerely or constantly, unfailingly, Eph. 6:24
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
**† ἀφθαρσία, -ας, ἡ
(< ἄφθαρτος), [in LXX: Wi 2:23 6:19, IV Mac 9:22 17:12*;]
incorruptibility, immortality: Ro 2:7, I Co 15:42, 50, 53, 54, II Ti 1:10; ἀγαπώντων . . . ἐν ἀ., Eph 6:24 (v. AR, in l.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀφθαρσία. An interesting example of this word occurs in the fragment of the Gnostic Gospel from the beginning of iv/a.p., P Oxy VIII. 108114#-, where in contrast to the perishing of everything born of corruption (ἀπὸ φθορᾶς) we find τὸ] δὲ ye[t]vdpev[ov ἀπὸ] ἀφ[θ)]αρσίας [οὐκ ἀπο]γείν[εται] ἀλλ[ὰ μ)έν[ει] ἄφίϑαρ]τον ὡς ἀπὸ ἀ[φ]θ[αρσία)ς γεγονός. It is also quoted from Epicurus (605) τὴν μετὰ ἀφθαρσίας μακαριότητα : see Linde, p. 43, where other literary parallels are noted.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀφθαρσία (aphtharsia) — incorruptibility. ἀφθαρ-σία, ἡ, incorruption, immortality, [NT+4th c.BC+]
II. integrity, sincerity, [NT]