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Strong's #5591 - ψυχικός
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- of or belonging to breath
- having the nature and characteristics of the breath
- the principal of animal life, which men have in common with the brutes
- governed by breath
- the sensuous nature with its subjection to appetite and passion
- having the nature and characteristics of the breath
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ψῡχι-κός, ή, όν,
of the soul or life, spiritual, opp. σωματικός, ἡδοναί Arist. EN 1117b28; ὁρμαί Plb. 8.10.9; πνεῦμα ψ. the spirit, or breath of life, Plu. 2.1084e, etc.; νόσος ib.524d. Adv. -κῶς Ph. 1.81; opp. σωματικῶς, νοερῶς, Procl. Inst. 139; also, heartily, from the heart, LXX 2 Maccabees 4:37; 2 Maccabees 14:24.
2. of the animal life, animal, ὁ ψ. ἄνθρωπος the natural man, opp. ὁ πνευματικός, 1 Corinthians 2:14, cf. Judges 1:19, Phot. s.v.
3. brave, Alex. 338.
II for the soul or spirit of one deceased, ψ. δῶρα διδούς, sc. to Hermes, Epigr.Gr. 815.4 (Crete).
III cooling, Vett.Val. 6.27 (s. v. l.).
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
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** ψυχικός , -ή , -όν
(< ψυχή ),
[in LXX: 4 Maccabees 1:32 *;]
of the ψυχή (as the lower part of the immaterial in man), EV, natural: opp. to πνευματικός , 1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 15:44; 1 Corinthians 15:46; πνεῦμα μὴ ἔχοντες (EV, sensual; R, mg., natural or animal; better perhaps, of the mind; v. infr.), Judges 1:19; with ἐπίγειος , δαιμονιώδης , opp. to ἄνωθεν κατερχομένη (σοψία ), of the mind (Hort, in l), James 3:15†
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