φυσικός
physikos · natural
Greek word · Strong’s number G5446 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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physikos (φυσικός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “natural”.
According to nature, as things are by birth.
How to say it
phy·si·kos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- As God ordered it in creation.
- By mere instinct, from birth.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- natural ×2
- nature ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Romans 1:26
For this reason God handed them over to passions of dishonor; for their females exchanged the natural use for that contrary to nature;
- Romans 1:27
and likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their desire for one another, males with males committing the indecency and receiving in themselves the penalty that was due for their error.
- 2 Peter 2:12
But these, like irrational animals, born by nature for capture and destruction, blaspheming in matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,