φύσις phusis

Greek word for “nature” · Strong’s G5449 · used 14 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

φύσις, -εως, ἡ; (φύω);

How it is translated

Glosses given for phusis in context, with how often each is used:

• nature 10
• nature are 1
• birth 1
• kinds 1
• race 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Romans 2 (2), Romans 11 (2), Romans 1 (1), 1 Corinthians 11 (1), Galatians 2 (1), Galatians 4 (1), Ephesians 2 (1), James 3 (1), 2 Peter 1 (1)

Forms

• φύσιν 5
• φύσει 5
• φύσεως 2
• φύσις 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with phusis more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἀτιμία atimia “dishonour” 2
• ἐπιθυμία epithumia “desire” 2
• οὐδέ oude “nor” 2
• ἔθνος ethnos “Gentiles” 2
• νόμος nomos “law” 2
• μέν men “on the other hand” 2
• παρά para “from/with/beside” 2
• τε te “and/both” 2
• κατά kata “according to” 2
• εἰ ei “if” 2

Key verses

The verses using phusis that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Romans 1:26 — 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:
• Romans 2:14 — For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
• Romans 2:27 — And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
• Romans 11:21 — For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
• Romans 11:24 — For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these,…
• 1 Corinthians 11:14 — Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
• Galatians 2:15 — We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
• Galatians 4:8 — Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
• Ephesians 2:3 — Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature…
• James 3:7 — For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
• 2 Peter 1:4 — Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.