phthora · decay, corruption

What it means

phthora (φθορά) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “decay, corruption”.

Destruction.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What rots and ends, like the mortal body.
2. The moral rot that ruins a person.
3. The final ruin of what is lost forever.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• corruption ×4
• destruction ×3
• decay ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Galatians×1
• Colossians×1
• 2 Peter×4

• Romans 8:21

  that the creation itself also will be set free from the slavery of 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 in decay, it is raised in imperishability;

• 1 Corinthians 15:50

  Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does decay inherit imperishability.

• Galatians 6:8

  because the one who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

• Colossians 2:22

  (things that all are meant for destruction with use), according to the commandments and teachings of human beings?

• 2 Peter 1:4

  through which he has granted us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become sharers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through desire.

• 2 Peter 2:12

  But these, like irrational animals, born by nature for capture and destruction, blaspheming in matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,

• 2 Peter 2:19

  promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what anyone is overcome, to this he is also enslaved.

And 1 more times.