What does ἀμαράντινος (amarántinos) mean in the Bible?
ἀμαράντινος (amarántinos): Describes imperishable glory that never withers, contrasting earthly honors that fade away
Greek · G262
ἀμαράντινος
Unfading
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ἀμαράντινοςG262
Pronunciationamarántinos
What does ἀμαράντινος (amarántinos) mean in the Bible?
ἀμαράντινος (amarántinos): Describes imperishable glory that never withers, contrasting earthly honors that fade away
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How does the BSB render G262?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include that will never fade away (1).
Where does ἀμαράντινος (amarántinos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 1 Peter 5:4. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Peter (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itthat will never fade away1×1 Peter 5:4
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First aligned row1 Peter 5:4
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
1 Peter1
Source forms
ἀμαράντινον1xamarantinon1 Peter 5:4
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular1x1 Peter 5:4
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Describes imperishable glory that never withers, contrasting earthly honors that fade away
Strong'sG262
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
unfading
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Describes imperishable glory that never withers, contrasting earthly honors that fade away
(ἀμάραντος), of amaranth (Inscr.); hence unfading: 1Pe.5:4.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
1 Peter 5:4Adjective Accusative Singular Masculine
ἀμαράντινονamarantinon
unfading, fadeless
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternAccusative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · Masculine1 Pet 5:41×
Word Origins
ἀμαράντινος is built from this root:
ἀμάραντοςG263