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Strong’s G5449 · Greek

φύσις

phýsis · foo'-sis

Origin from φύω (G5453);

Meaning 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

In the King James Version (man-)kind, nature(-al).

In 11 verses of the King James Version

  1. Romans 1:26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
  2. Romans 2:14For 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:
  3. Romans 2:27And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
  4. Romans 11:21For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
  5. Romans 11:24For 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, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
  6. 1 Corinthians 11:14Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
  7. Galatians 2:15We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
  8. Galatians 4:8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
  9. Ephesians 2:3Among 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 the children of wrath, even as others.
  10. James 3:7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
  11. 2 Peter 1:4Whereby 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 is in the world through lust.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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