Strong's Number 5356
Transliteration:
phthora
{fthor-ah'}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
9:93,1259
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage in the KJV:
corruption 7, to perish 1519 1, destroy 1
Total: 9
Definition:
- corruption, destruction, perishing
- that which is subject to corruption, what is perishable
- in the Christian sense, eternal misery in hell
- in the NT, in an ethical sense, corruption i.e. moral decay