Strong's Number G5449

φύσις

phusis · foo'-sis

Transliteration:

phusis{foo'-sis}

Word Origin:

from 5453

TDNT:

9:251,1283

Part of Speech:

noun feminine

Strong's Definition:

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

Usage in the KJV:

nature 10, natural 2596 1, kind 1, mankind 442 1

Total: 14
Occurs 14 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

nature
1. the nature of things, the force, laws, order of nature
2. as opposed to what is monstrous, abnormal, perverse
3. as opposed what has been produced by the art of man: the natural branches, i.e. branches by the operation of nature
4. birth, physical origin
5. a mode of feeling and acting which by long habit has become nature
6. the sum of innate properties and powers by which one person differs from others, distinctive native peculiarities, natural characteristics: the natural strength, ferocity, and intractability of beasts