Strong's Number 5449
Transliteration:
phusis
{foo'-sis}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
9:251,1283
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage in the KJV:
nature 10, natural 2596 2, kind 1, mankind 442 1
Total: 14
Definition:
- nature
- the nature of things, the force, laws, order of nature
- as opposed to what is monstrous, abnormal, perverse
- as opposed what has been produced by the art of man: the natural branches, i.e. branches by the operation of nature
- birth, physical origin
- a mode of feeling and acting which by long habit has become nature
- 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