# G1311 διαφθείρω

διαφθείρω (diaphtheírō), Strong’s G1311: to rot thoroughly, i.e. (by implication) to ruin (passively, decay utterly, figuratively, pervert) KJV: corrupt, destroy, perish. Occurs 80 times.

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*diaphtheírō* — to rot thoroughly, i.e. (by implication) to ruin (passively, decay utterly, figuratively, pervert)

KJV: corrupt, destroy, perish

Built from [διαβάλλω diabállō](https://besorah.bible/word/G1225) (accuse) + [φθείρω phtheírō](https://besorah.bible/word/G5351) (to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil)

Occurs 80 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Luke 12:33](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/12?v=33) — Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the…
- [2 Corinthians 4:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/4?v=16) — Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.
- [1 Timothy 6:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-timothy/6?v=5) — constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain…
- [Revelation 11:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/revelation/11?v=18) — The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 16:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/16?v=5) — For even when terrible raging of wild beasts came upon your people, and they were perishing by the bites of crooked…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 16:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/16?v=19) — At another time even in the midst of water it burns more intensely than fire, that it may destroy the produce of an…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 18:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/18?v=12) — Yes, they all together, under one form of death, had corpses without number. For the living were not sufficient even to…
- [Sirach 47:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/47?v=22) — But the Lord will never forsake his mercy. He won’t destroy any of his works, nor blot out the posterity of his elect…
- [2 Maccabees 12:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/12?v=23) — Judas continued the pursuit more vigorously, putting the wicked wretches to the sword, and he destroyed as many as…
- [3 Maccabees 1:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/3-maccabees/1?v=5) — It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners.