Lexical Summary phthartos: perishable, corruptible Original Word: φθαρτόςTransliteration: phthartos Phonetic Spelling: (fthar-tos') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: perishable, corruptible Meaning: perishable, corruptible Strong's Concordance corruptible. From phtheiro; decayed, i.e. (by implication) perishable -- corruptible. see GREEK phtheiro Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5349: φθαρτόςφθαρτός, φθαρτη, φθαρτόν (φθείρω), corruptible, perishable (Vulg.corruptibilis): 1 Corinthians 9:23; 1 Peter 1:23; ἄνθρωπος, i. e. mortal, opposed to ὁ ἄφθαρτος Θεός, Romans 1:23; οὐ φθαρτοῖς ἀργυρίῳ ἤ χρυσίῳ, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, 1 Peter 1:18 (Winer's Grammar, § 59, 5 at the end) (χρυσός καί ἄργυρος, ὀυσιαι φθαρται, Philo de cherub. § 14; οὐκ ἄργυρον οὐδέ χρυσόν τινα, ἤ ἄλλο τῶν ἐν ὕλαις φθαρταις, de congr. erudit. grat. § 20); neuter τό φθαρτόν, that which is liable to corruption (τό φθαρτόν τοῦτο this corruptible (A. V.)), 1 Corinthians 15:53f. (Diodorus 1, 6; Philo de legg. alleg. 2, 1; de cherub. § 2; (Aristotle), Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus, others; 2 Macc. 7:16; Wis. 9:15 Wis. 14:8.) |