Word Summary
physikos: natural, according to nature
Original Word: φυσικόςTransliteration: physikos
Phonetic Spelling: (foo-see-kos')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: natural, according to nature
Meaning: natural, according to nature
Strong's Concordance
natural.
From phusis; "physical", i.e. (by implication) instinctive -- natural. Compare psuchikos.
see GREEK phusis
see GREEK psuchikos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5446: φυσικόςφυσικός,
φυσικη,
φυσικον (
φύσις),
natural; i. e., a.
produced by nature, inborn (very often so from
Xenophon, (mem. 3, 9, 1) down).
b. agreeable to nature (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, others): opposed to παρά φύσιν, Romans 1:26,(27).
c. governed by (the instincts of) nature: ζῷα γεγεννημένα φυσικά, 2 Peter 2:12 (R. V. born mere animals).