Greek noun (feminine) · G5449
φύσις
physisfoo'-sis
nature
14 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: phýsis
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5449is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5449
growth (by germination or expansion), i.e. (by implication) natural production (lineal descent); by extension, a genus or sort; figuratively, native disposition, constitution or usage
The King James renders it: (man-)kind, nature(-al).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
physis is rendered "nature". It stands 14 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 1:26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
Romans 1:26φύσιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's fourteen uses are in Romans.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- nature8
- by nature3
- by birth1
- kinds1
- race1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- φύσει5
- φύσιν5
- φύσεως2
- φύσις2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular5N-ASF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular5N-DSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2N-NSF
Romans
seven uses
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- φύσινphusinnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: nature
Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
- φύσειphuseinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: by nature
The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.
- φύσεωςphuseosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: nature
For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.
- φύσινphusinnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: nature
For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
- φύσινphusinnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: nature
- φύσινphusinnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: nature
- φύσινphusinnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: nature
1 Corinthians
one use
Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
- φύσιςphusisnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: nature
Galatians
two uses
We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”
- φύσειphuseinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: by birth
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
- φύσειphuseinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: by nature
Ephesians
one use
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
- φύσειphuseinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: by nature
James
two uses
All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,
- φύσιςphusisnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: kinds
- φύσειphuseinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: race
2 Peter
one use
Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
- φύσεωςphuseosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: nature
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.