Definition

incorruptibility; genitive, unending existence; (figuratively) genuineness

Etymology

from G862 (ἄφθαρτος);

Word family

• ἄφθαρτος áphthartos

How the KJV renders it

• immortality
• incorruption
• sincerity

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.