# G2704 καταφθείρω

καταφθείρω (kataphtheírō), Strong’s G2704: to spoil entirely, i.e. (literally) to destroy; or (figuratively) to deprave; KJV: corrupt, utterly perish. Occurs 24 times.

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*kataphtheírō* — to spoil entirely, i.e. (literally) to destroy; or (figuratively) to deprave;

KJV: corrupt, utterly perish

Built from [κατά katá](https://besorah.bible/word/G2596) (about) + [φθείρω phtheírō](https://besorah.bible/word/G5351) (to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil)

Occurs 24 times.

## Where it occurs
- [2 Timothy 3:8](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-timothy/3?v=8) — Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 16:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/16?v=22) — But snow and ice endured fire, and didn’t melt, that people might know that fire was destroying the fruits of the…
- [1 Maccabees 3:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/3?v=39) — and with them, he sent forty thousand infantry and seven thousand cavalry to go into the land of Judah and to destroy…
- [1 Maccabees 8:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/8?v=11) — The remaining kingdoms and islands, as many as rose up against them at any time, they destroyed and made them to be…
- [1 Maccabees 15:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/15?v=4) — moreover I plan to land in the country, that I may punish those who have destroyed our country, and those who have made…
- [1 Maccabees 15:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/15?v=31) — or else give me for them five hundred talents of silver; and for the harm that you have done, and the tributes of the…
- [2 Maccabees 5:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/5?v=14) — In a total of three days, eighty thousand were destroyed, of which forty thousand were slain in close combat, and no…
- [2 Maccabees 8:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/8?v=3) — and to have pity on the city that was suffering ruin and ready to be leveled to the ground, and to listen to the blood…