2001 Translation

PHYSEI, physei

Sounds Like: FYOO-say

Translations: (to) nature, (to) birth, (to) kind, (to) origin, (to) character, (to) species, (to) natural disposition

From the root: ΦΥΣΙΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the inherent character, constitution, or natural order of something. It can describe the essential quality or disposition of a person, animal, or thing. In the dative case, as seen here, it often implies 'by nature' or 'naturally,' indicating an inherent quality or manner of being.

Inflection: Singular, Dative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5449 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:250, 1:288

Codex Sinaiticus

• Romans — 2:14
• Galatians — 2:15, 4:8
• Ephesians — 2:3
• James — 3:7

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 1:1

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 2:24, 17:168
• Book Two — 2:24, 17:168

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 0:24
• Book 2 — 4:56, 6:146, 6:161
• Book 3 — 1:23, 8:190
• Book 4 — 3:37, 8:212, 8:269
• Book 5 — 2:124, 8:317
• Book 6 — 6:109, 9:171, 12:263, 13:281, 14:341
• Book 7 — 7:130, 10:252
• Book 8 — 4:107, 6:152, 6:158, 8:209, 8:215
• Book 10 — 7:100
• Book 11 — 2:26, 6:211
• Book 12 — 2:91, 5:257
• Book 13 — 7:114, 10:291, 10:294, 11:315, 11:319
• Book 14 — 1:13
• Book 15 — 4:89, 4:97, 7:237, 9:324, 9:327
• Book 16 — 1:10, 4:89, 5:150, 7:219, 11:365
• Book 17 — 9:237, 9:242, 9:243, 11:304
• Book 18 — 2:47, 6:144, 6:172, 6:176, 9:312
• Book 19 — 2:192, 6:305
• Book 20 — 3:64

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 11:10, 14:8, 22:8, 25:4
• Book Two — 6:13, 11:5, 12:3
• Book Three — 7:30, 7:143, 7:159, 8:7, 8:8, 9:11, 9:25
• Book Four — 1:9, 1:10, 2:7, 4:23, 5:6
• Book Five — 4:3, 4:27, 5:55, 7:16, 9:25, 11:17
• Book Seven — 8:43, 8:101

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 1:1
• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:5, 0:6, 0:14
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 45:3, 45:4, 134:6

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 9:34, 17:87, 37:187

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 3 Maccabees — 3:29
• Wisdom — 13:1

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Romans — 2:14
• Galatians — 2:15, 4:8
• Ephesians — 2:3
• James — 3:7

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.

• ΦΥΣΕΙΣ — natures, kinds, species, dispositions, qualities, a nature, a kind, a species, a disposition, a quality
• ΦΥΣΕΩΣ — of nature, of birth, of origin, of kind, of character
• 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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