φθορά

fqorav fqorav,
fqora'",
hJ (
fqeivrw), from Aeschylus and Herodotus down:1. corruption, destruction, perishing (opposed to
gevnesi", origin, often in Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch; opposed to
swthriva, Plato, Phileb., p. 35 e.; for tj'v', (); ): (on which see
douleiva); a (some (cf. R. V. marginal reading) take
fqorav here actively:
eij"
fqoravn, to destroy);
ejn
fqorav, in a state of corruption or decomposition (of the body at burial), ; by metonymy, that which is subject to corruption, what is perishable, opposed to
ajfqarsiva, ; in the Christian sense, the loss of salvation, eternal misery (which elsewhere is called
ajpwvleia), (see
ajpovcrhsi"); opposed to
zwhv
aijwvnio", , cf. Schott ad loc. 2. in the N. T. in an ethical sense, corruption i. e. moral decay: ; {b} (some take the word here actively (R. V. text in their destroying), others refer it to 1 above), ; with
th'"
zwh'" added, Sap. .*