Aphtharsia means “incorruptibility” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H861 — attun (“furnace”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G861 ἀφθαρσία (aphtharsia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. aphtharsia (af-thar-see'-ah) n. 1. incorruptibility 2. (genitive) unending existence It has 13 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include immortality, incorruption, and sincerity. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
aphtharsia (af-thar-see'-ah) n. 1. incorruptibility 2. (genitive) unending existence 3. (figuratively) genuineness [from G862] KJV: immortality, incorruption, sincerity Root(s): G862
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G861. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
incorruptibility
Usage: ἀφθαρσία, -ας, ἡ (ἄφθαρτος), [in LXX: Wis.2:23 6:19, 4Ma.9:22 4Mac 17:12 * ;] incorruptibility, immortality: Rom.2:7, 1Co.15:42 15:50 15:53-54, 2Ti.1:10; ἀγαπώντων . . . ἐν ἀ., Eph.6:24 (see AR, in l).† ἀ-φθορία, -ας, ἡ (φθείρω), [in LXX: Hag.2:17 (שְׁדֵפָה)* ;] uncorruptness: Tit.2:7 (Rec. ἀφθορία).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render aphtharsia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G861 (ἀφθαρσία) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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8 indexed usages in New Testament.
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying,
For at that time virtue presided over the contest, approving the victory through endurance, namely, immortality, eternal life.
For God created man to be immortal, And made him to be an image of his own eternity.
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G861.
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying,
For at that time virtue presided over the contest, approving the victory through endurance, namely, immortality, eternal life.
For God created man to be immortal, And made him to be an image of his own eternity.
And love is the keeping of her laws; And the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption;
And incorruption maketh us near unto God:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G861, grouped by book.
Aphtharsia (Strong's G861) is a Greek word most simply glossed "incorruptibility". aphtharsia (af-thar-see'-ah) n. 1. incorruptibility 2. (genitive) unending existence
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's G861 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G861 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as immortality, incorruption, and sincerity. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G861, with linked reader references where each row is available.