Strong's #5449: phusis (pronounced foo'-sis)

from 5453; 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:--(man-)kind, nature(-al).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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phusis

1) nature

1a) the nature of things, the force, laws, order of nature

1a) as opposed to what is monstrous, abnormal, perverse

1b) as opposed what has been produced by the art of man: the natural branches, i.e. branches by the operation of nature

1b) birth, physical origin

1c) a mode of feeling and acting which by long habit has become nature

1d) 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

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G5453

Citing in TDNT: 9:251, 1283

Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

 

Romans 1:26: "the natural use into that which is against nature:"
Romans 2:14: "not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these,"
Romans 2:27: "And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfill the law, judge"
Romans 11:21: "spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare"
Romans 11:24: "of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature"
Romans 11:24: "and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more"
Romans 11:24: "more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?"
1 Corinthians 11:14: "Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if"
Galatians 2:15: "We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,"
Galatians 4:8: "not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods."
Ephesians 2:3: "mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as"
James 3:7: "For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents,"
James 3:7: "is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:"
2 Peter 1:4: "these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption"