Strong's Greek: 5446. φυσικός (phusikos) -- natural, according to nature

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Lexicon

phusikos: natural, according to nature

Original Word: φυσικός, ή, όν
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: phusikos
Phonetic Spelling: (foo-see-kos')
Short Definition: natural, according to nature
Definition: natural, (a) according to nature, (b) merely animal.

HELPS word-Studies

Cognate: 5446 physikós (an adjective, derived from 5449 /phýsis, "nature") – natural, describing the behavior of an unregenerate person, i.e. a nature lacking divine transformation (salvation). See 5449 (physis).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from phusis
Definition
natural, according to nature
NASB Translation
creatures of instinct (1), natural (2).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 5446: φυσικός

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, Romans 1:26,(27).

c. governed by (the instincts of) nature: ζῷα γεγεννημένα φυσικά, 2 Peter 2:12 (R. V. born mere animals).

Strong's

natural.

From phusis; "physical", i.e. (by implication) instinctive -- natural. Compare psuchikos.

see GREEK phusis

see GREEK psuchikos