Words the Bible translates as corrupt
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- shaḥatשָׁחַתto ruin: to wreck something so it no longer works as it should, whether a thing, a people, or a person's own moral character
- diastrephōδιαστρέφωto twist something out of true: to bend a straight path, a message, or a person away from where it ought to run
- phtheirōφθείρωto ruin something: to bring what was whole or pure into a spoiled, corrupted, or destroyed state, so that human corruption and the destruction it invites can be named by one word
- ḥanephחָנֵףto defile, or to be defiled: to spoil a land by bloodshed and unfaithfulness until it can no longer hold God's presence, and to turn a person godless
- saprosσαπρόςbad in the sense of failing at its purpose: worthless, unsound, no good for what it is meant to do
- alaḥאָלַחto corruptnot studied yet
- sheḥatשְׁחַתto corruptnot studied yet
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