Physikos means “natural” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5446 — cebal (“strongly laid”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5446 φυσικός (phusikos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. phusikos (foo-see-kos') adj. 1. "physical" 2. (by implication) instinctive It has 3 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include natural. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament.
phusikos (foo-see-kos') adj. 1. "physical" 2. (by implication) instinctive [from G5449] KJV: natural Root(s): G5449 Compare: G5591, G4152
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5446. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
natural
Usage: 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)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render phusikos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
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:
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.
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;
First 3 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5446.
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:
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.
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;
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5446, grouped by book.
Physikos (Strong's G5446) is a Greek word most simply glossed "natural". phusikos (foo-see-kos') adj. 1. "physical" 2. (by implication) instinctive
This page currently indexes 3 linked usages for Strong's G5446 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5446 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as natural. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.