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|txtha=[[future]] φθερῶ; 1st aorist ἐφθειρα; [[passive]], [[present]] φθείρομαι; 2nd aorist ἐφθάρην; 2future φθαρήσομαι; ([[akin]] to German verderben); the Sept. for שִׁחֵת; (from Homer down); to [[corrupt]], to [[destroy]]: [[properly]], [[τόν]] ναόν [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ (in the [[opinion]] of the Jews the [[temple]] [[was]] [[corrupted]], or 'destroyed', [[when]] anyone [[defiled]] or in the slightest [[degree]] damaged [[anything]] in it, or if its guardians neglected [[their]] duties; cf. Deyling, Observations, sacrae, vol. ii, p. 505ff), dropping the [[figure]], to [[lead]] [[away]] a Christian [[church]] from [[that]] [[state]] of [[knowledge]] and [[holiness]] in [[which]] it [[ought]] to [[abide]], τινα, to [[punish]] [[with]] [[death]], [[ruin]] (A. V. [[corrupt]])), to be destroyed, to [[perish]]: ἐν τίνι, by a [[thing]], ἐν [[with]] a dative denoting the [[condition]], ἐν τῇ [[φθορά]] αὐτῶν, L T Tr WH. in an [[ethical]] [[sense]], to [[corrupt]], [[deprave]]: φθείρουσιν ἔθη χρηστά ὁμιλίαι κακαί (a [[saying]] of [[Menander]] ([[see]] [[ἦθος]], 2), [[which]] seems to [[have]] passed [[into]] a [[proverb]] ([[see]] Wetstein at the [[passage]]; Gataker, Advers. misc. l. i. c. 1, p. 174 f)), φθείρομαι [[ἀπό]] τίνος, to be so [[corrupted]] as to [[fall]] [[away]] from a [[thing]] ([[see]] [[ἀπό]], I:3d.), φθειρόμενον [[κατά]] τάς ἐπιθυμίας (R. V. waxeth [[corrupt]] etc.), [[διαφθείρω]], [[καταφθείρω]].)