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.)
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