'Decay' in the Bible

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

But this will be the nature of the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will decay while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot away in their sockets, and their tongues will dissolve in their mouths.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.

David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: 'I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.'

Therefore he also says in another psalm, 'You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.'

For David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,

but the one whom God raised up did not experience decay.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God's children.