2001 Translation

PHYSEŌS, physeōs

Sounds Like: FYOO-seh-ohss

Translations: of nature, of birth, of origin, of kind, of character

From the root: ΦΥΣΙΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the inherent character, constitution, or essential quality of something or someone. It can also denote the process of birth or origin, or a specific kind or species. In the provided examples, it consistently refers to 'nature' in various contexts, such as the nature of an animal or the graces of nature.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5449 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:32

Codex Sinaiticus

• 4 Maccabees — 5:8, 5:9, 13:27
• Wisdom — 19:20
• Romans — 2:27
• 2 Peter — 1:4

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 26:232, 16:152, 17:169
• Book Two — 16:152, 17:169

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 0:8
• Book 3 — 6:123, 15:320
• Book 4 — 8:226, 8:322
• Book 6 — 6:126, 7:136, 13:318
• Book 8 — 2:49
• Book 10 — 4:51
• Book 12 — 2:71
• Book 14 — 1:13
• Book 15 — 6:178, 7:219
• Book 16 — 8:247
• Book 17 — 3:47, 5:95, 5:108, 5:120
• Book 18 — 6:177
• Book 19 — 2:208, 6:296

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 26:10, 29:5
• Book Two — 16:39
• Book Three — 8:30, 8:35, 10:57, 10:60
• Book Seven — 5:37, 6:4, 8:94, 8:131

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:2
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 10:2

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 9:6

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 4 Maccabees — 5:7, 5:8, 13:27

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Romans — 2:27
• 2 Peter — 1:4

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΥΣΙΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΦΥΣΕΙ — (to) nature, (to) birth, (to) kind, (to) origin, (to) character, (to) species, (to) natural disposition
• ΦΥΣΕΙΣ — natures, kinds, species, dispositions, qualities, a nature, a kind, a species, a disposition, a quality
• ΦΥΣΙ — nature, by nature, natural disposition, natural order, birth, kind, species
• ΦΥΣΙΚΟΝ — natural, physical, innate, a natural thing, a physical thing
• ΦΥΣΙΚΩΤΑΤΟΝ — most natural, very natural, a most natural thing
• ΦΥΣΙΝ — nature, a nature, kind, a kind, birth, a birth, natural order, a natural order, natural disposition, a natural disposition
• ΦΥΣΙΣ — nature, a nature, kind, a kind, character, a character, birth, a birth, natural order, a natural order

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