1. corruption, decay, decomposition — The process of physical decomposition or rotting of organic matter, especially of a dead body in the grave; used theologically in the context of the resurrection to assert that God's Holy One would not undergo bodily decay. Both sense clusters share the same accusative singular case form (N-AFS) and identical semantic content — there is no meaningful distinction between them. Multilingual glosses are virtually identical: Spanish 'corrupción' in both clusters, Arabic 'فَسادًا' / 'فَسَادًا' (corruption, same word with minor orthographic variation), Swahili 'kuoza' (to rot/decay) in both, Korean '썬음' (decay/rotting). All 6 occurrences appear in Acts 2:27, 31; 13:34-37 in the context of Peter's and Paul's sermons about Christ's resurrection, quoting or alluding to Psalm 16:10 (LXX Ps 15:10), arguing that David's body saw corruption but Christ's did not. 6×
AR["فَسادًا","فَسادٍ","فَسَادًا"]·ben["ক্ষয়","ক্ষয়ে"]·DE["διαφθοράν"]·EN["corruption","decay"]·FR["corruption"]·heb["הֲרִקָּבוֹן","כִּלָּיוֹן","רִקָּבוֹן"]·HI["सड़न","सुनते-हो"]·ID["kebinasaan","kebinasaan."]·IT["distruzione"]·jav["bosok.","kabosoken,","kabosoken."]·KO["나-의","썬음으로","썬음을","앉히리는-것-을"]·PT["corrupção","corrupção,","corrupção."]·RU["тление","тление.","тления"]·ES["corrupción"]·SW["kuoza","kuoza,","kuoza."]·TR["çürüme","çürüyüşe","çürüyüşü"]·urd["سڑاند","سڑاہٹ"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
διαφθορ-ά, Ionic dialect διαφθορή, ἡ, (διαφθείρω) destruction, ruin, ἐπὶ -φθορᾷ τῆς πόλεως Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 destruction, blight, of things, ὀμμάτων διαφθοραί Refs 4th c.BC+ __3 in moral sense, corruption, seduction, νέων Refs 5th c.BC+ __4 miscarriage, abortion, Refs 5th c.BC+, Melanges Holleaux Refs 2nd c.BC+ __5 stomachic disorder, Refs 2nd c.AD+ __II concrete, ἰχθύσιν δ. a prey for fishes, of a corpse, Refs 5th c.BC+