Degenerate

Having fallen from a desirable state.

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the DEGENERATE plant of a strange vine unto me? ( Jeremiah 2:21 )

DEGENERATE

de-jen'-er-at:

Only in Jeremiah 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").