Phtheiro means “defile” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5351 — nequddah (“stud”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5351 φθείρω (phtheiro) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. phtheiro (fthei'-ro) v. 1. (properly) to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) 2. (generally) to ruin It has 21 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include any. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
phtheiro (fthei'-ro) v. 1. (properly) to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) 2. (generally) to ruin 3. (especially figuratively, by moral influences) to deprave [probably strengthened from phthio "to pine or waste"] KJV: corrupt (self), defile, destroy
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to destroy
Usage: φθείρω [in LXX chiefly for שָׁחַת hi., pi., also for חָבַל, etc. ;] to destroy, corrupt, spoil (on the varied usage and distinctive meaning of the word, see Mayor on 2Pe, App., 175 ff.): with accusative, 1Co.3:17 15:23, 2Co.7:2; before ἀπό, 2Co.11:3; ἐν, 2Pe.2:12, Ju 10, Rev.19:2; κατά, Eph.4:22 (cf. δια-, κατα-φθείρω).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render phtheiro, 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.
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Strong's G5351 (φθείρω) appears 14 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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7 indexed usages in New Testament.
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
12 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.
And they covered the face of the earth, and the land was wasted, and they devoured all the herbage of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which was left by the hail: there was no green thing left on the trees, nor on all the herbage of the field, in all the land of Egypt.
Ye shall not make a round cutting of the hair of your head, nor disfigure your beard.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
No destroyer of the desert, or ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful, snake, make spoil of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime.
For that which was not destroyed of the fire, Being warmed with a little sunbeam, soon melted away:
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5351.
But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.
And they covered the face of the earth, and the land was wasted, and they devoured all the herbage of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which was left by the hail: there was no green thing left on the trees, nor on all the herbage of the field, in all the land of Egypt.
Ye shall not make a round cutting of the hair of your head, nor disfigure your beard.
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old at his death; his eyes were not dimmed, nor were his natural powers destroyed.
And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time of the going forth of kings to war, that Joab gathered the whole force of the army, and they ravaged the land of the children of Ammon; and he came and besieged Rabbah. But David abode in Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah and destroyed it.
His harvest shall perish before the time, And his branch shall not flourish.
The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.
The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.
Behold, I have created thee, not as the coppersmith blowing coals, and bringing out a vessel fit for work; but I have created thee, not for ruin, that I should destroy thee.
Thus will I mar the pride of Judah, and the pride of Jerusalem;
Thou therefore bear thy punishment, for that thou hast corrupted thy sisters by thy sins which thou hast committed beyond them; and thou hast made them appear more righteous than thyself: thou therefore be ashamed, and bear thy dishonor, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
They have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquities, he will take vengeance on their sins.
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
No destroyer of the desert, or ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful, snake, make spoil of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime.
For that which was not destroyed of the fire, Being warmed with a little sunbeam, soon melted away:
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Phtheiro (Strong's G5351) is a Greek word most simply glossed "defile". phtheiro (fthei'-ro) v. 1. (properly) to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) 2. (generally) to ruin
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's G5351 across 17 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5351 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
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Yes. The current local index includes 12 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5351, with linked reader references where each row is available.