Natural
φυσικόςStrong’s G5446phusikos
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Phusikos is the Greek word usually translated “natural” and “as creatures of instinct”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“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;”
Meaning
Usually translated “natural” and “as creatures of instinct”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- natural 2
- as creatures of instinct 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Romans 2
- 2 Peter 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Romans 1:26For 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 1:27And 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.
Greek dictionary
φυσικός phusikos · natural
φυσικός, -ή, -όν (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)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “natural” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NATURAL, adjective
[to be born or produced]
- Pertaining to nature; produced or effected by nature, or by the laws of growth, formation or motion impressed on bodies or beings by divine power.
- According to the stated course of things.
- Not forced; not far fetched; such as is dictated by nature.
- According to the life; as a natural representation of the face.
All definitions and other forms of “natural”
- Consonant to nature.
- Derived from nature, as opposed to habitual.
- Discoverable by reason; not revealed; as natural religion.
- Produced or coming in the ordinary course of things, or the progress or animals and vegetables; as a natural death; opposed to violent or premature.
- Tender; affectionate by nature.
- Unaffected; unassumed; according to truth and reality.
- Illegitimate; born out of wedlock; as a natural son.
- Native; vernacular; as ones natural language.
- Derived from the study of the works or nature; as natural knowledge.
- A natural note, in music, is that which is according to the usual order of the scale; opposed to flat and sharp notes, which are called artificial.
NATURAL, noun
- An idiot; one born without the usual powers of reason or understanding.
- A native; an original inhabitant.
- Gift of nature; natural quality.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.