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GreekG5449Noun (Feminine)

φύσις

phusis

11Occurrences
G5449Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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

from G5453 (φύω);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
nature, i.e., (a) the nature (natural powers or constitution) of a person or thing: τέκνα φυσει ὀργῆς; (b) origin, birth (Soph., Xen.): (with) nature, i.e. the regular order or law of nature: dative, *φύσει *adverbially, by nature,; παρὰ φύσιν, against nature; καρὰ φ., according to nature, naturally.
LXX: אΑ, 4 4 4 4 4 4 *

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

G:N-F

Full Description

Greek Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

φύσις appears 11 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Romans
5
Galatians
2
1 Corinthians
1
2 Peter
1
Ephesians
1
James
1

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 11:14BSB

Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,

Ephesians 2:3BSB

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.

Galatians 4:8BSB

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

Romans 1:26BSB

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Romans 11:24BSB

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!

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.