καταφθορά
destruction, ruin
Where this word appears
Every passage where καταφθορά appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Chronicles 12:12 καταφθορά And when he repented, the anger of the Lord turned from him, and did not destroy him utterly; for there were good things in Juda.
- Psalms 48:10 καταφθορά When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers.
- Daniel 4:10 καταφθορά I saw in the night vision upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven and cried aloud, and thus he said,
About this word
About this word
καταφθορά (kataphthorá), “destruction, ruin,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 3 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
