Physikós — G5446

Definition

adjective

"physical", i.e. (by implication) instinctive

1. agreeable to nature
2. governed by (the instincts of) nature

Usually translated as

natural

Origin

from G5449

• phýsis (G5449)
• psychikós (G5591)

Occurrences

Physikós occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Romans (2), 2 Peter (1)

• Romans 1:26 — For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural (φυσικὴν) use into that which is against nature:
• Romans 1:27 — And likewise also the men, leaving the natural (φυσικὴν) use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
• 2 Peter 2:12 — But these, as natural (φυσικὰ) brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;