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fqeivrw fqeivrw; future
fqerw'; 1 aorist
ejfqeira; passive, present
fqeivromai; 2 aorist
ejfqavrhn; 2 future
fqarhvsomai; (akin to German verderben); the Septuagint for tjevi; (from Homer down); to corrupt, to destroy: properly,
tovn
naovn
tou'
Qeou' (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, a;
tina, to punish with death, {b}; equivalent to to bring to want or beggary (cf. our ruin (A. V. corrupt)), ; passive, to be destroyed, to perish:
ejn
tivni, by a thing, ;
ejn with a dative denoting the condition,
ejn
th'/
fqorav
aujtw'n, L T Tr WH. in an ethical sense, to corrupt, deprave:
fqeivrousin
e[qh
crhstav
oJmilivai
kakaiv (a saying of Menander (see
h\qo", 2), which seems to have passed into a proverb (see Wetstein at the passage; Gataker, Advers. misc. l. i. c. 1, p. 174f)), ; the character of the inhabitants of the earth, ; passive,
fqeivromai
ajpov
tivno", to be so corrupted as to fall away from a thing (see
ajpov, I. 3 d.), ;
fqeirovmenon
katav
tav"
ejpiqumiva" (R. V. waxeth corrupt etc.), . (Compare:
diafqeivrw,
katafqeivrw.)*