UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: to destroy

Semantic entry: 20.39

Semantic domains: Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill

Subdomains: Destroy

Definition: to ruin or destroy something, with the implication of causing something to be corrupt and thus to cease to exist

Sense 2: to cause harm, to ruin

Semantic entry: 20.23

Semantic domains: Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill

Subdomains: Harm, Wound

Definition: to cause harm to someone

Notes: It may be possible to translate this expression in RV CO2 7:2 · LV CO2 7:2 · Read together CO2 7:2 (referring to financial ruin) as ‘we have not caused anyone to suffer a loss,’ but φθείρω in RV CO2 7:2 · LV CO2 7:2 · Read together CO2 7:2 may also refer to the undermining of faith.

Sense 3: to deprave, to pervert, to ruin, to cause the moral ruin of

Semantic entry: 88.266

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Licentiousness, Perversion

Definition: to cause someone to become perverse or depraved, as a type of moral destruction{N:001}