ψυχικός
psychikós · G5591 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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physical, natural
Pertaining to being material or physical, especially in relation to life processes
Examples1 Corinthians 15:44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
1 Corinthians 15:46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
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natural, human
Pertaining to human nature (possibly contrasting with σάρκινος and σαρκικός ‘natural, human,’, in focusing somewhat more on so-called higher endowments of personality)
Examples1 Corinthians 2:14 But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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unspiritual, worldly, natural
(Derivative of ψυχή ‘inner self,’) Pertaining to behavior which is typical of human nature, in contrast with that which is under the control of God’s Spirit
Examples1 Corinthians 2:14 But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
James 3:15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.
Jude 1:19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Unspiritual, worldly, natural41.41
- James 3:15 says of the wisdom that is not from above, “This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.”
- Physical, natural79.2
- 1 Corinthians 15:44 says, “it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.”
- Natural, human79.5
- 1 Corinthians 2:14 says, “a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned”.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ψυχική, ψυχικόν (ψυχή) (Vulg.animalis, Gem.sinnlich), "of or belonging to the ψυχή; a.…
a. having the nature and characteristics of the ψυχή i. e. of the principle of animal life," which men have in common with the brutes (see ψυχή, 1 a.); (A. V. natural): σῶμα ψυχικόν, 1 Cor 15:44; substantively, τό ψυχικόν (Winer's Grammar, 592 (551)), 1 Cor 15:46: since both these expressions do not differ in substance or conception from σάρξ καί αἷμα in 1 Cor 15:50, Paul might have also written σαρκικον; but prompted by the phrase ψυχή ζῶσα in 1 Cor 15:45 (borrowed from Gen 2:7), he wrote ψυχικόν.
b. "governed by the ψυχή i. e. the sensuous nature with its subjection to appetite and passion (as though made up of nothing but ψυχή): ἄνθρωπος (equivalent to σαρκικός (or σάρκινος, which see 3) in ), 1 Cor 2:14; ψυχικοί, πνεῦμα μή ἔχοντες, Jude 1:19 (A. V. sensual (R. V. with marginal reading 'Or natural, Or animal'); so in the following example); σοφία, a wisdom in harmony with the corrupt desires and affections, and springing from them (see σοφία, a., p. 581b bottom), Jas 3:15. (In various other senses in secular authors from Aristotle and Polybius down.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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