G5446: φυσικός
physikós · “natural”
Definition
"physical", i.e. (by implication) instinctive
KJV translates it as: natural
Word origin: from G5449 (φύσις);
Extended definition
(ψύσις),
natural
(a) produced by nature, innate (Xen., Arist., al.);
(b) according to nature (Arist., Diod., al.): opposite to παρὰ φύσιν, Rom.1:26-27;
(with) governed by mere natural instinct (of. Plut., Mor., 706 A): ζῷα γεγεννημένα φ. (RV, born mere animals; Mayor, born creatures of instinct; ICC, animals born of mere nature), 2Pe.2:12,†
(AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G5446 is translated
- natural ×2
- as creatures of instinct ×1
Bible verses with G5446 (physikós)
Physikós appears in 3 verses.
- Romans 1:26
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:
- Romans 1:27
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.
- 2 Peter 2:12
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;