Definition

to spoil entirely, i.e. (literally) to destroy; or (figuratively) to deprave;

Etymology

from G2596 (κατά) and G5351 (φθείρω);

Where the KJV renders it

• --corrupt
• utterly perish

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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