Definition

"amaranthine", i.e. (by implication) fadeless

Etymology

from G263 (ἀμάραντος);

Word family

• ἀμάραντος amárantos

How the KJV renders it

• that fadeth not away

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.