physis · nature

What it means

physis (φύσις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “nature”.

What something is by birth or origin; "by nature", by what one is born as or by the natural order.

How to say it

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

1. What someone is by birth.
2. The natural order of things.
3. A sort of being: animals, birds, people.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• nature ×9
• natural ×2
• humankind ×1
• kind ×1
• physically ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Romans×7
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×2
• Ephesians×1
• James×2
• 2 Peter×1

• 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 2:14

  For when the nations, which do not have law, do by nature the things of the law, these, though not having law, are a law to themselves.

• Romans 2:27

  And the one who is physically uncircumcised but fulfills the law will judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

• Romans 11:21

  for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

• Romans 11:24

  For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

• 1 Corinthians 11:14

  Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,

• Galatians 2:15

  We are Jews by nature and not sinners from the nations,

• Galatians 4:8

  But at that time, not knowing God, you were slaves to those that by nature are not gods.

• Ephesians 2:3

  among whom we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

• James 3:7

  For every kind of beasts and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, is tamed and has been tamed by humankind,

• 2 Peter 1:4

  through which he has granted us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become sharers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through desire.

And 3 more times.