Strong's Lexicon
G5446
G5446 — φυσικός
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G5446 |
|---|---|
| Word: | φυσικός |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Etymology: | from G5449 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 3 |
| Transliteration: | phusikos |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | foo-see-kos' |
| Meaning: | 1. "physical" 2. (by implication) instinctive |
| KJV Renderings: | natural |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φυσικός, φυσικη, φυσικον (φύσις), natural; i. e., a. produced by nature, inborn (very often so from Xenophon, (mem. 3, 9, 1) down).
b. agreeable to nature (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, others): opposed to παρά φύσιν, Rom 1:26,(27).
c. governed by (the instincts of) nature: ζῷα γεγεννημένα φυσικά, 2Pe 2:12 (R. V. born mere animals).
Englishman's Greek Concordance
φυσικός (natural)
Romans 1:26
- KJV: For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature
- GK: διά τούτο παρέδωκεν αυτούς ο θεός εις πάθη ατιμίας αι τε γαρ θήλειαι αυτών μετήλλαξαν την φυσικήν χρήσιν εις την παρά φύσιν
Romans 1:27
- KJV: And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet
- GK: ομοίως τε και οι άρρενες αφέντες την φυσικήν χρήσιν της θηλείας εξεκαύθησαν εν τη ορέξει αυτών εις αλλήλους άρσενες εν άρσεσι την ασχημοσύνην κατεργαζόμενοι και την αντιμισθίαν ην έδει της πλάνης αυτών εν εαυτοίς απολαμβάνοντες
2 Peter 2:12
- KJV: But these as natural brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed speak evil of the things that they understand not and shall utterly perish in their own corruption
- GK: ούτοι δε ως άλογα ζώα φυσικά γεγεννημένα εις άλωσιν και φθοράν εν οις αγνοούσι βλασφημούντες εν τη φθορά αυτών καταφθαρήσονται