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To corrode

κατιόομαιStrong’s G2728

katioomai

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Katioomai is the Greek word usually translated “have corroded”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.”
James 5:3 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “have corroded”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • have corroded 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • James 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    κατιόομαι katioomai · to corrode

    κατ-ιόω, -ῶ (intensive of ἰόω; ἰός) [in LXX: Sir.12:11 * ;] to rust over; pass., become rusted over: Jas.5:3.† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “corrode” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    CORRODE, verb transitive

    [Latin, to eat or gnaw.]

    1. To eat away by degrees; to wear away, or diminish, by gradually separating small particles from a body, in the manner an animal gnaws a substance.
    2. To wear away by degrees; to prey upon; to impair; to consume, or diminish by slow degrees.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.