DECAY, corruption — the rotting of a body, from diaphtheirō, to destroy utterly. ⚠ It carries an argument at Acts 2:27 and 2:31, and the argument works in Greek in a way it does not in Hebrew. The Greek Old Testament renders Psalm 16:10 'you will not give your holy one to see DIAPHTHORA', and Peter presses exactly that: David's flesh did decay, so the psalm must mean somebody else. The Hebrew word behind it is SHACHAT, which the standard Jewish rendering gives as 'THE PIT' — the grave itself, in parallel with Sheol in the previous line — on which reading the verse is a prayer not to die rather than a claim about a body not rotting. Both senses are defensible from the Hebrew root; the Greek translators chose one, and the sermon reasons from theirs. ⚠ That is a fact about how the argument works and not a scandal: the Greek was the Bible of the Greek-speaking city Peter is addressing, and Luke wrote the speech in Greek. But no version on the shelf tells the reader, because it prints 'corruption' here and 'the pit' at Psalm 16, three hundred pages apart. → first discussed at Acts 2:27