noun · feminine
diafthoras
Strong’sG1312
destruction, decay, corruption
stem diafthor-6 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
δια-φθορά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< διαφθείρω), [in LXX chiefly for שׁחת, and cogn. forms;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1312 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddee-af-thor-ah'
decay
Fromfrom G1311;
King Jamescorruption.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect διαφθορή, ἡ, (διαφθείρω) destruction, ruin, ἐπὶ -φθορᾷ τῆς πόλεως Refs 5th c.BC+
2 destruction, blight, of things, ὀμμάτων διαφθοραί Refs 4th c.BC+
3 in moral sense, corruption, seduction, νέων Refs 5th c.BC+
4 miscarriage, abortion, Refs 5th c.BC+, Melanges Holleaux Refs 2nd c.BC+
5 stomachic disorder, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II concrete, ἰχθύσιν δ. a prey for fishes, of a corpse, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | diafthoras | diafthorais |
| object accusative | diafthoran6×διαφθοράν | diafthorain |
| direct address vocative | diafthorar | diafthorair |
| of, belonging to genitive | diafthorau | diafthoraiu |
| to, for dative | diafthora | diafthorai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
diafthora is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
diafthoran“decay”objectaccusative singular6×
Acts 2:27… oude dōasi ton hosion su horara diafthoran.… You let Your Holy One see decay.
Acts 2:31… hadon oute tas sarkas autou horata diafthoran.… Hades, nor did His body see decay.
Acts 13:34… ek nekroiu mēketi mellarōnton hupostrefarō eis diafthoran, houtōs legatē hoti Dōami vi teim …… from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will …
Acts 13:35… Ouk dōasi ton hosion su horara diafthoran;… not let Your Holy One see decay.’
Acts 13:36“corruption”… pros toin patroin autou kai horata diafthoran,… was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
Acts 13:37… de tos theos egerata ouk horata diafthoran.… from the dead did not see decay.