Strong's #5351: phtheiro (pronounced fthi'-ro)

probably strengthened from phthio (to pine or waste); properly, to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) or (generally) to ruin (especially figuratively, by moral influences, to deprave):--corrupt (self), defile, destroy.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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phtheirō

1) to corrupt, to destroy

1a) in the opinion of the Jews, the temple was corrupted or "destroyed" when anyone defiled or in the slightest degree damaged anything in it, or if its guardians neglected their duties

1b) to lead away a Christian church from that state of knowledge and holiness in which it ought to abide

1c) to be destroyed, to perish

1d) in an ethical sense, to corrupt, deprave

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: probably strengthened from phthio (to pine or waste)

Citing in TDNT: 9:93, 1259

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

1 Corinthians 3:17: "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy;"
1 Corinthians 3:17: "of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God"
1 Corinthians 15:33: "deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners."
2 Corinthians 7:2: "us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man."
2 Corinthians 11:3: "so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that"
Ephesians 4:22: "the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;"
Jude 1:10: "beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves."
Revelation 19:2: "great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her"