ΦΘΑΡΤΟΣ, φθαρτος
PHTHARTOS, phthartos
Sounds Like: FTHAR-tos
Translations: perishable, corruptible, mortal, a perishable thing, a corruptible thing
From the root: ΦΘΑΡΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is subject to decay, destruction, or death. It is often used in contrast to that which is imperishable or immortal. It can refer to physical things that break down over time, or to human beings who are mortal and subject to death.
Inflection: Masculine, Nominative, Singular
Strong’s number: G5350 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 5:4
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 7:16
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 9 — 23:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΘΑΡΤΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΦΘΑΡΤΑ — perishable, corruptible, mortal, destructible, things that perish, things that are corruptible
- ΦΘΑΡΤΗΝ — perishable, corruptible, mortal, a perishable thing
- ΦΘΑΡΤΟ — perishable, corruptible, mortal, a perishable thing, a corruptible thing
- ΦΘΑΡΤΟΙΣ — corruptible, perishable, mortal, of corruptible things
- ΦΘΑΡΤΟΥ — (of) perishable, (of) corruptible, (of) destructible
- ΦΘΑΡΤΟΥΣ — perishable, corruptible, mortal, destructible, transient, the perishable ones, the corruptible ones
- ΦΘΑΡΤΩΝ — (of) corruptible, (of) perishable, (of) mortal
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