UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: ψυχικός; -ή, -όν

Related lemmas: ψύχομαι

Sense 1: physical, natural

Semantic entry: 79.2

Semantic domains: Features of Objects

Subdomains: Physical [Material], Spiritual

Definition: pertaining to being material or physical, especially in relation to life processes

Notes: In some languages, however, it is impossible to translate σπείρεται in RV CO1 15:44 · LV CO1 15:44 · Read together CO1 15:44 as ‘sown,’ and one must therefore translate this expression as ‘when buried, it is a physical body.’

CO1 15:44: RV CO1 15:44 · LV CO1 15:44 · Read together CO1 15:44

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44 It’s ‘sown’ a natural body but it’s raised as a spiritual body. (If there’s a natural body, there’s also a spiritual body.)

OET-LV CO1 15:44

44 it _is _being _sown a_body natural, it _is _being _raised a_body spiritual.
If there _is a_body natural, there _is also a_spiritual body.

CO1 15:46: RV CO1 15:46 · LV CO1 15:46 · Read together CO1 15:46

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46 but the spiritual doesn’t come first—it’s first the natural and then the spiritual.

OET-LV CO1 15:46

46 But not first the spiritual, but the natural, then the spiritual.

Sense 2: natural, human

Semantic entry: 79.5

Semantic domains: Features of Objects

Subdomains: Natural [Human], Spiritual

Definition: pertaining to human nature (possibly contrasting with σάρκινος [source selector 000002][c] and σαρκικός [source selector 000002][c] ‘natural, human,’ 79.4: σαρκικός / 79.4: σάρκινος, in focusing somewhat more on so-called higher endowments of personality)

Notes: For another interpretation of ψυχικός in RV CO1 2:14 · LV CO1 2:14 · Read together CO1 2:14, see 41.41: ψυχικός.

CO1 2:14: RV CO1 2:14 · LV CO1 2:14 · Read together CO1 2:14

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14 Secular people don’t accept things about God’s spirit because they seem foolish to them, and they can’t understand them because it requires spiritual awareness,

OET-LV CO1 2:14

14 But the_soulish person, not is _receiving the things of _the spirit of_ the _god, because/for foolishness to _him it _is, and not he _is _able to _know them, because spiritually it _is _being _examined.

Sense 3: unspiritual, worldly, natural

Semantic entry: 41.41

Semantic domains: Behavior and Related States

Subdomains: Particular Patterns of Behavior

Definition: (derivative of ψυχή[a] ‘inner self,’ 26.4: ψυχή) pertaining to behavior which is typical of human nature, in contrast with that which is under the control of God’s Spirit

Notes: In a number of languages the equivalent of ‘unspiritual’ is simply ‘one who is not guided by God’s Spirit’ or ‘one who does not live in accordance with God’s Spirit.’ For another interpretation of ψυχικός in RV CO1 2:14 · LV CO1 2:14 · Read together CO1 2:14, see 79.5: ψυχικός.

CO1 2:14: RV CO1 2:14 · LV CO1 2:14 · Read together CO1 2:14

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