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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Corruption
Thompson Chain Reference
• Corruption
• Corrupt Priests
The Topic Concordance
• Corruption
Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Mount of Corruption
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Corruptions: Vitality of
• Corruptions: Strengthened by Habit
• Corruptions: Seen Even in Solitude
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Mount of Corruption (2)
• Mount of Corruption
• Corruption, Mount of
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Corruption
King James Dictionary
• Corruption
• Corrupting
• Corruptible
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• To Corrupt, Handle Deceitfully
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Corrupt, Verb and Adjective. Corruption, Corruptible, Incorruption, Incorruptible
Wilson's Bible Types
• Corruption
• Corrupt
Webster Dictionary
• Corruptness
• Corruptive
• Corruption
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Encyclopedias
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Corruption
• Corruption, Mount of
• Mount of Corruption
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Corruption
• Mount of Corruption
Lexicons
• ܚܒ݂ܰܠ
• ܚܶܒ݂ܠܳܐ
• ܡܚܰܒ݁ܠܳܐ
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• ἀφανίζω
• ἄφθαρτος
• διαφθείρω
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• אָבַד
• אָלַח
• בְּלִי , מַבֵּל
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Trench's NT Synonyms
• Corrupt

CORRUPT, L., to break. Literally, to break, separate or dissolve. Hence,

1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state to separate the component parts of a body, as by a natural process, which accompanied by a fetid smell.

2. To vitiate or deprave to change from good to bad.

Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1 Corinthians 15 .

3. To waste, spoil or consume.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. Matthew 6 .

4. To defile or pollute. Exodus 32 .

5. To entice from good and allure to evil. 2 Corinthians 11 .

6. To pervert to break, disobey or make void. Malachi 2 .

7. To pervert or vitiate integrity to bribe as, to corrupt a judge.

8. To debase or render impure, by alterations or innovations as, to corrupt language.

9. To pervert to falsify to infect with errors as, to corrupt the sacred text.

CORRUPT,

1. To become putrid to putrefy to rot. Animal and vegetable substances speedily corrupt in a warm and moist air.

2. To become vitiated to lose purity.

CORRUPT, a. L.

1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state, as by natural decomposition.

2. Spoiled tainted vitiated unsound as corrupt air, or bread.

3. Depraved vitiated tainted with wickedness.

They are corrupt they have done abominable works. Psalms 14 .

The earth was corrupt before God. Genesis 6 .

4. Debased rendered impure changed to a worse state as corrupt language.

5. Not genuine infected with errors or mistakes. The text is corrupt.