# corrupt ## Related Ideas: corruption, depraved, flawed, incorruptibility, incorruptible ## Definition: The terms "corrupt" and "corruption" refer to a state of affairs in which people have become ruined, immoral, or dishonest. * The term "corrupt" literally means to be "bent" or "broken" morally. * A person who is corrupt has turned away from truth and is doing things that are dishonest or immoral. * To corrupt someone means to influence that person to do dishonest and immoral things. ## Translation Suggestions: * The term to "corrupt" could be translated as to "influence to do evil" or to "cause to be immoral." * A corrupt person could be described as a person "who has become immoral" or "who practices evil." * This term could also be translated as "bad" or "immoral" or "evil." * The term "corruption" could be translated as "the practice of evil" or "evil" or "immorality." * Something that cannot be corrupted is "incorruptible" and is characterized as having "incorruptibility." (See also: [evil](../kt/evil.md)) ## Bible References: * [Ezekiel 20:42-44](rc://en/tn/help/ezk/20/42) * [Galatians 06:6-8](rc://en/tn/help/gal/06/06) * [Genesis 06:12](rc://en/tn/help/gen/06/12) * [Matthew 12:33-35](rc://en/tn/help/mat/12/33) * [Psalm 014:1](rc://en/tn/help/psa/014/001) ## Word Data: * Strong's: H2254, H2610, H3891, H4889, H7843, H7844, G861, G1311, G2704, G3392, G3394, G5351, G5356 ## Forms Found in the English ULB: corrupt, corrupted, corrupting, corruption, corruptly, corrupts, depraved, flawed, incorruptibility, incorruptible