fusikas

Strong’sG5446

natural, according to nature

stem fusik-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

* φυσικός, -ή, -όν

(< φύσις),

natural

(a) produced by nature, innate (Xen., Arist., al.);

(b) according to nature (Arist., Diod., al.): opp. to παρὰ φύσιν, Ro 1:26, 27;

(c) governed by mere natural instinct (cf. Plut., Mor., 706A): ζῷα γεγεννημένα φ. (RV, born mere animals; Mayor, born creatures of instinct; ICC, animals born of mere nature), II Pe 2:12,†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5446 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfoo-see-kos'

"physical", i.e. (by implication) instinctive

Fromfrom G5449;

King Jamesnatural.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

φῠσικός, ή, όν,
natural, produced or caused by nature, inborn, native, once in Refs 5th c.BC+, and later Prose; opposed to διδακτός, Refs 5th c.BC+ [same place]; opposed to νομικός (conventional), δίκαιον Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ φ. χρῆσις, opposed to ἡ παρὰ φύσιν, NT; of style, natural, simple, ἀληθὲς καὶ φ. χρῶμα Refs 1st c.BC+ adverb -κῶς by nature, naturally, κινητόν, κινεῖσθαι, Refs 4th c.BC+
b belonging to the nature of a plant, characteristic, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 belonging to growth, Refs
3 φ. ὀδόντες milk-teeth, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II of or concerning the order of external nature, natural, physical, ἡ φ. ἐπιστήμη Refs 4th c.BC+; φ. φιλοσοφίαRefs; οἱ φ. λόγοι falsa lectio for{οἱ φυσιολόγοι}, Refs; φ. προτάσεις, opposed to ἠθικαί, λογικαί, Refs; τὸ φ., τὸ ἠθικόν, τὸ λογικόν, the three branches of philosophy, Refs 4th c.BC+; τὰ πρῶτα καὶ -ώτατα the primal elements of things, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 ὁ φ. an inquirer into nature, natural philosopher, Refs 4th c.BC+: especially of the Ionic and other pre-Socratic philosophers, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ὁ φυσικώτατος, of Thales, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2.b army surgeon, uncertain in Refs
II.3 ἡ φ. ἀκρόασις, title of a treatise by Refs 4th c.BC+; τὰ φυσικά, a name given to his physical treatises, Refs
II.4 adverb -κῶς according to the laws of nature, Refs: comparative -ώτερον εἰπεῖν Refs
III later, belonging to occult laws of nature, magical, φ. φάρμακα spells or amulets, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -κῶςRefs

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

natural2×of instinct1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	fusikos	fusikas	fusikem	fusikois	fusikais	fusikeim1×φυσικὰ
object accusative	fusikon	fusikan2×φυσικὴν		fusikoin	fusikain
direct address vocative	fusikor	fusikar		fusikoir	fusikair
of, belonging to genitive	fusikou	fusikau	fusikeu	fusikoiu	fusikaiu	fusikeiu
to, for dative	fusiko	fusika	fusike	fusikoi	fusikai	fusikei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

fusikstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

fusik is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

fusikan“natural”objectaccusative singular2×

Romans 1:26… tē gar thēluais autoiu metallaxala tan fusikan chrēsian eis tan para fusian,… dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Romans 1:27… tē kai tois arsenois afiēkarantois tan fusikan chrēsian tau thēluau ekkaiila en ta …Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with …

fusikeim“of instinct”subject or objectdirect plural1×

2 Peter 2:12houtois de, hōs alogeim zōeim gennorēnteim fusikeim eis halōsian kai fthoran, en hei …… men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed …