Corruption
Bible Usage:
- corruption used 21 times.
- First Reference: Leviticus 22:25
- Last Reference: 2 Peter 2:19
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1097 Used 1 time
- H4480 Used 1 time
- H4889 Used 2 times
- H4893 Used 1 time
- H7845 Used 3 times
- G1312 Used 6 times
- G5356 Used 7 times
Physical decomposition
General references
Leviticus 22:25
After death
Genesis 3:19; Job 17:14; Job 21:26; Job 34:15; Psalms 16:10; Psalms 49:9; Psalms 104:29; Ecclesiastes 3:20; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Jonah 2:6; Acts 2:27; Acts 2:31; Acts 13:34-37; 1 Corinthians 15:42; 1 Corinthians 15:50
Figurative:
Of sin
Isaiah 38:17; Romans 8:21; Galatians 6:8; 2 Peter 1:4; 2 Peter 2:12; 2 Peter 2:19
Mount of
2 Kings 23:13
Judicial
Court; Government; Judge
Ecclesiastical
Church, The Collective Body of Believers, Corruption in; Minister, A Sacred Teacher
Political
Bribery; Civil Service; Government; Politics
CORRUPTION, noun [Latin]
1. The act of corrupting, or state of being corrupt or putrid; the destruction of the natural form of bodies, by the separation of the component parts, or by disorganization, in the process of putrefaction.
Thou wilt not suffer thy holy One to see corruption Psalms 16:10.
2. Putrid matter; pus.
3. Putrescence; a foul state occasioned by putrefaction.
4. Depravity; wickedness; perversion or deterioration of moral principles; loss of purity or integrity.
Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1:4.
CORRUPTION in elections is the great enemy of freedom.
5. Debasement; taint; or tendency to a worse state.
Keep my honor from corruption
6. Impurity; depravation; debasement; as a corruption of language.
7. Bribery. He obtained his suit by corruption
8. In law, taint; impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled to inherit lands from an ancestor, nor can retain those in his possession, nor transmit them by descent to his heirs.
CORRUPTION of blood can be removed only by act of parliament.
Bible Usage:
- corruption used 21 times.
- First Reference: Leviticus 22:25
- Last Reference: 2 Peter 2:19
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1097 Used 1 time
- H4480 Used 1 time
- H4889 Used 2 times
- H4893 Used 1 time
- H7845 Used 3 times
- G1312 Used 6 times
- G5356 Used 7 times