ψυχικός
soulish
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 3 times (50%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (17%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (17%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5591 appears — 5 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Corinthians 3 verses
- 1 Corinthians 2:14 ψυχικὸς adj nom sg masc Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- 1 Corinthians 15:44 ψυχικόν Ψυχικόν adj nom sg neut adj nom sg neut It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
- 1 Corinthians 15:46 ψυχικόν adj nom sg neut However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
James 1 verse
Jude 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“soulish” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective ψυχικος (psychikós). With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in 1 Corinthians, which alone accounts for 60% of its uses. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Corinthians 2:14. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5591 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 3 verses 60%
- James 1 verse 20%
- Jude 1 verse 20%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 60%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 40%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Natural 3×, Sensual 2×
- American Standard Version: Natural 3×, Sensual 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Natural 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Natural 4×, Soulish 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5591 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5591 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5591 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5591 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- of or belonging to breath
Word origin
Derived from ψυχη (psychḗ) (G5590) — soul.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G5591 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ψυχικόν psychikón | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 15:44 | 2 |
| Ψυχικόν Psychikón | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 15:44 | 1 |
| ψυχική psychikḗ | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | James 3:15 | 1 |
| ψυχικοί psychikoí | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Jude 1:19 | 1 |
| ψυχικὸς psychikòs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 2:14 | 1 |
