1. imperishable, incorruptible, immortal — Not subject to decay, death, or corruption — imperishable, incorruptible, immortal. All three clusters represent the same adjective in different case/number/gender forms applied to things or persons that do not perish: the imperishable crown (1 Cor 9:25), the incorruptible God (Rom 1:23, 1 Tim 1:17), the imperishable inheritance (1 Pet 1:4,23), the incorruptible resurrection body (1 Cor 15:52). Spanish uses 'incorruptible/incorruptibles' throughout; Arabic 'غَيرِ فانٍ' / 'غَيْرَ فَانِيَ' / 'غَيرَ فاسِدينَ' (not perishing) and 'الَّذي لا يَفْنى' (who does not perish) — all negations of mortality; Korean '썩지 않는' (not rotting) uniformly; Swahili 'usioharibika/isiyoharibika/wasioharibika/asiyeharibika' are class-agreement variants of one adjective; Hindi 'अविनाशी' (avināśī = imperishable) consistently across all clusters. 8×
AR["الفاني","الَّذي-لا-يَفْنى","باقٍ","غَيرَ-فاسِدينَ","غَيرِ-الفاني","غَيرِ-فانٍ","غَيْرَ-فَانِيَ"]·ben["অক্ষয়","অক্ষয়,","অনশ্বর।","অবিনশ্বর"]·DE["unvergaenglich"]·EN["an-imperishable","immortal","imperishable","incorruptible"]·FR["incorruptible"]·heb["אִי-נִמְחָר","בִּלְתִּי-נִפְסָד","בִּלְתִּי-נִשְׁחֶתֶת","בִּלְתִּי-נִשְׁחָת","בִּלְתִּי־כָלִים","בִּלְתִּי־נִפְסָד","בִּלְתִּי־נִשְׁחָת"]·HI["अविनअशि","अविनाशी"]·ID["tidak-dapat-binasa","tidak-dapat-binasa,","yang-tidak-binasa","yang-tidak-dapat-binasa","yang-tidak-fana"]·IT["aphtharton","aphthartou","aphthartō","incorruttibile"]·jav["-boten-rusak","ingkang-langgeng","mboten-rusak","mboten-rusak,","ora-rusak,","sanès-risak."]·KO["썩지-않는","썩지-않는,","썩지-않을","썬지-않는"]·PT["imortal","incorruptíveis,","incorruptível","incorruptível,","incorruptível."]·RU["нетленного","нетленного,","нетленному","нетленному,","нетленности","нетленную","нетленный.","нетленными"]·ES["incorruptible","incorruptibles"]·SW["asiyeharibika","isiyoharibika","isiyoharibika.","usioharibika","wasioharibika"]·TR["çürümeyen","çürümez","ölümsüz"]·urd["امر","غیر-فانی","غیر-فانی-میں","غیر-فانی،"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἄφθαρ-τος, ον, uncorrupted, undecaying, Refs 3rd c.BC+ __II incorruptible, Refs 4th c.BC+ __II.2 eternal, Refs 4th c.BC+; immortal, πνεῦμαLXX+1st c.BC+; of poems, ΜοῦσαιRefsadverb -τως, τιμᾶνRefs