Phthartos means “corruptible” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5349 — noqed (“herdman”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5349 φθαρτός (phthartos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. phthartos (fthar-tos') adj. 1. decayed 2. (by implication) perishable It has 11 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include corruptible. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
phthartos (fthar-tos') adj. 1. decayed 2. (by implication) perishable [from G5351] KJV: corruptible Root(s): G5351
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5349. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
perishable
Usage: φθαρτός, -ή, -όν (φθείρω) [in LXX: Lev.22:25 (מִשְׁחָת), Isa.54:17 A א3, Wis.9:15 14:8, 2Ma.7:16 * ;] perishable, corruptible: ἄνθρωπος, Rom.1:23 (opposite to ἄφθαρτος θεός); στέφανος, 1Co.9:25 (opposite to αρτος); σπσρά, 1Pe.1:23 (opposite to ἄφθ.); neut., τὸ φ. τοῦτο, 1Co.15:53-54; pl., 1Pe.1:18.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render phthartos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5349 (φθαρτός) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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6 indexed usages in New Testament.
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
I will not suffer any weapon formed against thee to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against thee for judgment, thou shalt vanquish them all; and thine adversaries shall be condemned thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve the Lord, and ye shall be righteous before me, saith the Lord.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then looked he unto the king, and said, Thou hast power over men, thou art corruptible, thou doest what thou wilt; yet think not that our nation is forsaken of God;
For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, And the earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.
But that which is made with hands is cursed, as well it, as he that made it: He, because he made it: and it, because, being corruptible, it was called God.
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5349.
And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
I will not suffer any weapon formed against thee to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against thee for judgment, thou shalt vanquish them all; and thine adversaries shall be condemned thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve the Lord, and ye shall be righteous before me, saith the Lord.
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Then looked he unto the king, and said, Thou hast power over men, thou art corruptible, thou doest what thou wilt; yet think not that our nation is forsaken of God;
For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, And the earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.
But that which is made with hands is cursed, as well it, as he that made it: He, because he made it: and it, because, being corruptible, it was called God.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5349, grouped by book.
Phthartos (Strong's G5349) is a Greek word most simply glossed "corruptible". phthartos (fthar-tos') adj. 1. decayed 2. (by implication) perishable
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's G5349 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5349 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as corruptible. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5349, with linked reader references where each row is available.