φθείρω

φθείρω — phtheírō

φθείρω; future φθερῶ; 1 aorist ἐφθειρα; passive, present φθείρομαι; 2 aorist ἐφθάρην; 2 future φθαρήσομαι; (akin to German verderben); the Sept. for שִׁחֵת; (from Homer down); to corrupt, to destroy: properly, τόν ναόν τοῦ Θεοῦ (in the opinion of the Jews the temple was corrupted, or 'destroyed', when anyone defiled or in the slightest degree damaged anything in it, or if its guardians neglected their duties; cf. Deyling, Observations, sacrae, vol. ii, p. 505ff), dropping the figure, to lead away a Christian church from that state of knowledge and holiness in which it ought to abide, 1Co 3:17 a; τινα, to punish with death, 1Co 3:17{b}; equivalent to to bring to want or beggary (cf. our ruin (A. V. corrupt)), 2Co 7:2; passive, to be destroyed, to perish: ἐν τίνι, by a thing, Jud 1:10; ἐν with a dative denoting the condition, ἐν τῇ φθορά αὐτῶν, 2Pe 2:12 L T Tr WH. in an ethical sense, to corrupt, deprave: φθείρουσιν ἔθη χρηστά ὁμιλίαι κακαί (a saying of Menander (see ἦθος, 2), which seems to have passed into a proverb (see Wetstein at the passage; Gataker, Advers. misc. l. i. c. 1, p. 174f)), 1Co 15:33; the character of the inhabitants of the earth, Rev 19:2; passive, φθείρομαι ἀπό τίνος, to be so corrupted as to fall away from a thing (see ἀπό, I. 3 d.), 2Co 11:3; φθειρόμενον κατά τάς ἐπιθυμίας (R. V. waxeth corrupt etc.), Eph 4:22. (Compare: διαφθείρω, καταφθείρω.)