διαφθείρω: Difference between revisions

|txtha=1st aorist διεφθειρα; [[passive]] ([[present]] διαφθείρομαι); [[perfect]] participle διεφθαρμενος; 2nd aorist διεφθαρην; the Sept. [[very]] [[often]] for שִׁחֵת, [[occasionally]] for חִבֵּל; in Greek writings from Homer down;<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[change]] for the [[worse]], to [[corrupt]]: minds, [[morals]]; [[τήν]] γῆν, i. e. the men [[that]] [[inhabit]] the [[earth]], διεφθαρμένοι [[τόν]] [[νοῦν]], [[τήν]] διάνοιαν, [[Plato]], legg. 10, p. 888a.; [[τόν]] γνώμην, [[Dionysius]] [[Halicarnassus]] Antiquities 5,21; [[τούς]] ὀφθαλμούς, [[Xenophon]], an. 4,5, 12).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[destroy]], [[ruin]], (Latin perdere);<br /><b class="num">a.</b> to [[consume]], of [[bodily]] vigor and [[strength]]: ὁ [[ἔξω]] [[ἡμῶν]] [[ἄνθρωπος]] διαφθείρεται (is decaying), to [[destroy]] (Latin delere): to [[kill]], διαφθείρειν [[τούς]], etc. Revelation 11:18.