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Lexicon :: Strong's G5591 - psychikos

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ψυχικός
Transliteration
psychikos (Key)
Pronunciation
psoo-khee-kos'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
6x in 4 unique form(s) TR
6x in 4 unique form(s) LXX
0x in 0 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 9:661,1342

Trench's Synonyms: lxxi. ψυχικός, σαρκικός.

Strong’s Definitions

ψυχικός psychikós, psoo-khee-kos'; from G5590; sensitive, i.e. animate (in distinction on the one hand from G4152, which is the higher or renovated nature; and on the other from G5446, which is the lower or bestial nature):—natural, sensual.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G5591 in the following manner: natural (4x), sensual (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G5591 in the following manner: natural (4x), sensual (2x).

  1. of or belonging to breath

    1. having the nature and characteristics of the breath

      1. the principal of animal life, which men have in common with the brutes

    2. governed by breath

      1. the sensuous nature with its subjection to appetite and passion

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ψυχικός psychikós, psoo-khee-kos'; from G5590; sensitive, i.e. animate (in distinction on the one hand from G4152, which is the higher or renovated nature; and on the other from G5446, which is the lower or bestial nature):—natural, sensual.
STRONGS G5591:
ψυχικός, ψυχική, ψυχικόν (ψυχή) (Vulg.animalis, Gem.sinnlich), "of or belonging to the ψυχή;
a. having the nature and characteristics of the ψυχή i. e. of the principle of animal life," which men have in common with the brutes (see ψυχή, 1 a.); (A. V. natural): σῶμα ψυχικόν, 1 Corinthians 15:44; substantively, τό ψυχικόν (Winer's Grammar, 592 (551)), 1 Corinthians 15:46: since both these expressions do not differ in substance or conception from σάρξ καί αἷμα in 1 Corinthians 15:50, Paul might have also written σαρκικον; but prompted by the phrase ψυχή ζῶσα in 1 Corinthians 15:45 (borrowed from Genesis 2:7), he wrote ψυχικόν.
b. "governed by the ψυχή i. e. the sensuous nature with its subjection to appetite and passion (as though made up of nothing but ψυχή): ἄνθρωπος (equivalent to σαρκικός (or σάρκινος, which see 3) in Genesis 3:1), 1 Corinthians 2:14; ψυχικοί, πνεῦμα μή ἔχοντες, Jude 1:19 (A. V. sensual (R. V. with marginal reading 'Or natural, Or animal'); so in the following example); σοφία, a wisdom in harmony with the corrupt desires and affections, and springing from them (see σοφία, a., p. 581b bottom), James 3:15. (In various other senses in secular authors from Aristotle and Polybius down.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
2:7; 3:1
1 Corinthians
2:14; 15:44; 15:45; 15:46; 15:50
James
3:15
Jude
1:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5591 matches the Greek ψυχικός (psychikos),
which occurs 6 times in 5 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:14 - The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:44 - it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:46 - The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 3:15 - Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:19 - These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.
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