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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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φύσις

Strong’s: G5449

Associated OET lemmas: φύσις

Notes: There is clearly a play on the use of the term φύσις at the beginning and at the end of OET JAM 3:7.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: φύσις; -εως

Related lemmas: φύω

Sense 1: nature

Semantic entry: 58.8

Semantic domains: Nature, Class, Example

Subdomains: Nature, Character

Definition: the nature of something as the result of its natural development or condition

Notes: For languages in which there is no ready equivalent to the lexical term ‘nature,’ it may be possible to render the expression in OET GAL 4:8 as ‘beings who are really not gods,’ and in OET PE2 1:4 one may translate ‘to share in what God is like’ or ‘to be like God in certain ways.’

Show passage in OET: ROM 1:26

OET-RV ROM 1:26

26 Because of that, God reluctantly let them exercise their dishonourable passions, and their women exchanged natural behaviours for unnatural ones,

OET-LV ROM 1:26

26 Because_of this, gave_over them the god to passions of_dishonour, which for both female of_them exchanged the natural usage into the contrary_to nature,
Show passage in OET: ROM 2:14

OET-RV ROM 2:14

14 Whenever other nations don’t have the Jewish laws, but naturally obey what’s in the laws, they show that even without our laws, they have their own law.

OET-LV ROM 2:14

14 For/Because whenever the_pagans which not the_law having, by_nature the things of_the law may_be_practicing, these the_law not having, to_themselves are a_law,

Jump to OET ROM 1:26 section.

Jump to OET ROM 2:14 section.

All 11 recorded passages for this sense

ROM: OET ROM 1:26 · OET ROM 2:14 · OET ROM 2:27 · OET ROM 11:21 · OET ROM 11:24

CO1: OET CO1 11:14

GAL: OET GAL 2:15 · OET GAL 4:8

EPH: OET EPH 2:3

JAM: OET JAM 3:7

PE2: OET PE2 1:4

Sense 2: kind, class, species

Semantic entry: 58.24

Semantic domains: Nature, Class, Example

Subdomains: Class, Kind

Definition: a class of entities based on physiological and genetic similarity

Show passage in OET: JAM 3:7

OET-RV JAM 3:7

7 Every kind of wild animal and birds and reptiles and sea creature can be tamed and has been tamed by humankind

OET-LV JAM 3:7

7 For/Because every nature of_wild_beasts both and of_birds, of_reptiles both and of_sea creatures, is_being_tamed and has_been_tamed by_the nature the human,

Jump to OET JAM 3:7 section.