καταφθείρω
kataphtheírō · G2704 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to deprave, to pervert, to ruin, to cause the moral ruin of
To cause someone to become perverse or depraved, as a type of moral destruction
Examples2 Timothy 3:8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, worthless in regard to the faith.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- διαφθείρω diaphtheírō · G1311 · to destroy utterly, to deprave, to pervert
- Both verbs denote destruction or corruption — built on the same root φθείρω with different prepositional prefixes (κατα- and δια-) — and share the specific sense of moral depravity or ruin. διαφθείρω has broader application across physical destruction and moral corruption, but the target's sole attested sense is precisely this moral-ruin meaning, making the two intensified forms of the same root genuine near synonyms with overlapping application.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To deprave, to pervert, to ruin, to cause the moral ruin of88.266
- In 2 Timothy 3:8, Paul writes, “Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, worthless in regard to the faith,” using this word for a mind that has become morally corrupted or ruined.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : perfect passive participle κατεφθαρμενος; 2 future passive καταφθαρήσομαι; (see κατά,…
1. to corrupt, deprave; κατεφθαρμένοι τόν νοῦν, corrupted in mind, 2 Tim 3:8.
2. to destroy; passive to be destroyed, to perish: followed by ἐν with the dative indicating the state, 2 Pet 2:12 R G. (From Aeschylus down.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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