ἀφθαρσία
incorruption
‘incorruption’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 6 times (75%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G861 appears — 8 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Romans 1 verse
1 Corinthians 4 verses
- 1 Corinthians 15:42 ἀφθαρσίᾳ n dat sg fem So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.
- 1 Corinthians 15:50 ἀφθαρσίαν n acc sg fem Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
- 1 Corinthians 15:53 ἀφθαρσίαν n acc sg fem For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
- 1 Corinthians 15:54 ἀφθαρσίαν n acc sg fem But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
Ephesians 1 verse
2 Timothy 1 verse
Titus 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, αφθαρσια (aphtharsía) means “incorruption.” The word gravitates to 1 Corinthians (50%), then Romans and Ephesians. It turns up in 8 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. It first appears in Romans 2:7. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G861 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 4 verses 50%
- Romans 1 verse 13%
- Ephesians 1 verse 13%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 8 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Incorruption 4×, Immortality 2×, Sincerity 2×
- American Standard Version: Incorruption 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Imperishable 4×, Immortality 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Incorruptibility 4×, Immortality 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G861 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G861 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G861 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G861 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- incorruption, perpetuity
- purity, sincerity, incorrupt
Word origin
Derived from αφθαρτος (áphthartos) (G862) — imperishable.
From G862 ; incorruptibility ; generally unending existence ; (figuratively) genuineness : - immortality incorruption sincerity.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G861 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀφθαρσίαν aphtharsían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 2:7 | 5 |
| ἀφθαρσίᾳ aphtharsía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 15:42 | 2 |
| ἀφθορίαν aphthorían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Titus 2:7 | 1 |
