Strong's G5351 · Greek

φθείρω

phtheiro · fthi'-ro

probably strengthened from phthio (to pine or waste); properly, to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) or (generally) to ruin (especially figuratively, by moral influences, to deprave)

Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

φθείρω (G5351)

9 φθείρω [in LXX chiefly for שׁחת hi., pi., also for חבל , etc. ;] to destroy, corrupt, spoil (on the varied usage and distinctive meaning of the word, v. Mayor on II Pe, App. , 175 ff.): c. acc., I Co 3:17 15:23 , II Co 7:2 ; seq. ἀπό , II Co 11:3 ; ἐν , II Pe 2:12 , Ju 10 , Re 19:2 ; κατά , Eph 4:22 (cf. δια- , κατα-φθείρω ).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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