φυσικός
physikós · G5446 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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natural, naturally, by nature, by instinct
Pertaining to that which is in accordance with the nature or character of something
ExamplesRomans 1:26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged natural relations for that which is contrary to nature,
Romans 1:27 and likewise the men, too, abandoned natural relations with women and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing shameful acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
2 Peter 2:12 But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, using abusive speech where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,
How it’s used
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Natural, naturally, by nature, by instinct58.9
- 2 Peter 2:12 describes false teachers as “like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct”.
Word family 16 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φυσικη, φυσικον (φύσις), natural; i. e., a. produced by nature, inborn (very often so…
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, 2 Pet 2:12 (R. V. born mere animals).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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