Phthora means “decay” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5356 — niqqayon (“cleanness”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5356 φθορά (phthora) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. phthora (fthor-ah') n. 1. decay, i.e. ruin (spontaneous or inflicted) {literally or figuratively} It has 18 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include corruption and perish. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
phthora (fthor-ah') n. 1. decay, i.e. ruin (spontaneous or inflicted) {literally or figuratively} [from G5351] KJV: corruption, destroy, perish Root(s): G5351
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corruption
Usage: φθορά, -ᾶς, ἡ (φθείρω) [in LXX for שַׁחַת, חֶבֶל, etc. ;] destruction, corruption, decay (see Mayor on 2Pe, App.,175 ff.): Rom.8:21, 1Co.15:42, Col.2:22, 2Pe.2:12; opposite to ζωὴ αἰώνιος, Gal.6:8; by meton., of that which is subject to corruption, 1Co.15:50; of moral decay, 2Pe.1:4 2:12 2:19 (cf. Wis.14:12).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render phthora, 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, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. 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 G5356 (φθορά) appears 10 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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8 indexed usages in New Testament.
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
6 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
thou wilt wear away with intolerable weariness, both those and all this people which is with thee: this thing is hard, thou wilt not be able to endure it thyself alone.
Who redeems thy life from corruption; Who crowns thee with mercy and compassion;
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication, And the invention of them the corruption of life.
So that there reigned in all men without exception, blood, manslaughter, theft, and dissimulation, Corruption, unfaithfulness, tumults, perjury,
2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.
a great destruction for one year. And this son who has been born unto you shall be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the earth
shall die [he and his sons shall be saved]. And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days. And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read (them) in the heavenly tablets.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5356.
And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
thou wilt wear away with intolerable weariness, both those and all this people which is with thee: this thing is hard, thou wilt not be able to endure it thyself alone.
Who redeems thy life from corruption; Who crowns thee with mercy and compassion;
The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.
to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: Yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.
Arise thou, and depart; for this is not thy rest because of uncleanness: ye have been utterly destroyed;
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication, And the invention of them the corruption of life.
So that there reigned in all men without exception, blood, manslaughter, theft, and dissimulation, Corruption, unfaithfulness, tumults, perjury,
a great destruction for one year. And this son who has been born unto you shall be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the earth
shall die [he and his sons shall be saved]. And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days. And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read (them) in the heavenly tablets.
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Phthora (Strong's G5356) is a Greek word most simply glossed "decay". phthora (fthor-ah') n. 1. decay, i.e. ruin (spontaneous or inflicted) {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's G5356 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5356 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as corruption and perish. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 6 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G5356, with linked reader references where each row is available.