de-jen'-er-at: Only in Jer 2:21, where Judah is compared to a "noble vine" which it "turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine." It represents Hebrew curim = "stray" or "degenerate (shoots)," from cur = "to turn aside," especially to turn aside from the right path (Greek pikria, literally, "bitterness").
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Degenerate
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr (1915). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.