Lexicon kataphtheiró: to destroy entirely Original Word: καταφθείρωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: kataphtheiró Phonetic Spelling: (kat-af-thi'-ro) Short Definition: I destroy, corrupt Definition: I destroy, corrupt. HELPS word-Studies 2704 kataphtheírō (from 2596 /katá, "down, according to," intensifying 5351 /phtheírō, "corrupt") – properly, corrupted all the way down (thoroughly degenerated); utterly corrupted; to despoil, bringing down to a lower (inferior) form (note the prefix, 2596 /katá). 2704 (kataphtheírō) is only used in 2 Tim 3:8. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kata and phtheiróDefinitionto destroy entirely NASB Translationdepraved (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2704: καταφθείρωκαταφθείρω: perfect passive participle κατεφθαρμενος; 2 future passive καταφθαρήσομαι; (see κατά, III. 4); 1. to corrupt, deprave; κατεφθαρμένοι τόν νοῦν, corrupted in mind, 2 Timothy 3:8. 2. to destroy; passive to be destroyed, to perish: followed by ἐν with the dative indicating the state, 2 Peter 2:12 R G. (From Aeschylus down.)
Strong's corrupt, utterly destroy From kata and phtheiro; to spoil entirely, i.e. (literally) to destroy; or (figuratively) to deprave; --corrupt, utterly perish. see GREEK kata see GREEK phtheiro |
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