Greek adjective · G5591
ψυχικός
psychikospsoo-khee-kos'
natural
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: psychikós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5591is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5591
sensitive, i.e. animate (in distinction on the one hand from , which is the higher or renovated nature; and on the other from , which is the lower or bestial nature)
The King James renders it: natural, sensual.
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
psychikos is rendered "natural". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 2:14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:14ψυχικὸς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's six uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- natural4
- unspiritual1
- worldly-minded1
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 6, 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
- ψυχικόν3
- ψυχικὴ1
- ψυχικοί1
- ψυχικὸς1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular3A-NSN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1A-NSF
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM
1 Corinthians
four uses
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- ψυχικὸςpsuchikosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: natural
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
- ψυχικόνpsuchikonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: natural
- ψυχικόνpsuchikonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: natural
The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.
- ψυχικόνpsuchikonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: natural
James
one use
Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
- ψυχικὴpsuchikeadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: unspiritual
Jude
one use
These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.
- ψυχικοίpsuchikoiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: worldly-minded
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.