Original Word: καταφθείρω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: kataphtheiró
Pronunciation: kat-af-thi'-ro
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-af-thi'-ro)
KJV: corrupt, utterly perish
NASB: depraved
Word Origin: [from G2596 (κατά - according) and G5351 (φθείρω - corrupted)]

1. to spoil entirely
2. (literally) to destroy
3. (figuratively) to deprave

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

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.

Word Origin
from kata and phtheiró
Definition
to destroy entirely
NASB Translation
depraved (1).

STRONGS NT 2704: καταφθείρω

καταφθείρω: 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.)

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