φθορά
phthorá · G5356 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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ruin, destruction
A state of ruin or destruction, with the implication of disintegration
Examples1 Corinthians 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I say this, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Colossians 2:22 (which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of man?
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to rot, to decay, decay
To rot or decay, in reference to organic matter
ExamplesRomans 8:21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
1 Corinthians 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I say this, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
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moral corruption, depravity
A state of moral corruption and depravity
ExamplesGalatians 6:8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
2 Peter 1:4 Through these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world on account of lust.
2 Peter 2:19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what anyone is overcome, by this he is enslaved.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κληρονομέωto inherit 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- θερίζωto reap 1
- ἀποφεύγωto escape 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐνin 4
- εἰςto 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- δουλείαslavery 1
- δοῦλοςslave, bondservant 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- שַׁחַת shachath · H7845 · pit
- Hebrew שַׁחַת denotes physical or moral corruption/destruction/pit, directly rendered by Greek φθορά in LXX contexts emphasizing decay and ruin.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Ruin, destruction20.38
- Galatians 6:8 warns that “the one who sows to his own flesh will reap destruction from the flesh”.
- To rot, to decay, decay23.205
- 1 Corinthians 15:42 describes the resurrection body: “It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body”.
- Moral corruption, depravity88.267
- Colossians 2:22 dismisses human regulations about things “destined to perish with use”.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φθορᾶς, ἡ (φθείρω), from Aeschylus and Herodotus down: 1. corruption, destruction,…
1. corruption, destruction, perishing (opposed to γένεσις, origin, often in Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch; opposed to σωτηρία, Plato, Phileb., p. 35 e.; for שַׁחַת, Ps 102:4; Jon 2:7): Rom 8:21 (on which see δουλεία); 2 Pet 2:12a (some (cf. R. V. marginal reading) take φθορά here actively: εἰς φθοράν, to destroy); ἐν φθορά, in a state of corruption or decomposition (of the body at burial), 1 Cor 15:42; by metonymy, that which is subject to corruption, what is perishable, opposed to ἀφθαρσία, 1 Cor 15:50; in the Christian sense, the loss of salvation, eternal misery (which elsewhere is called ἀπώλεια), Col 2:22 (see ἀπόχρησις); opposed to ζωή αἰώνιος, Gal 6:8, cf. Schott ad loc. 2. in the N. T. in an ethical sense, corruption i. e. moral decay: 2 Pet 1:4; 2 Pet 2:12{b} (some take the word here actively (R. V. text in their destroying), others refer it to 1 above), 2 Pet 2:19; with τῆς ζωῆς added, Wis. 14:12.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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