I would be grateful if anyone could tell me whether Biblical Greek had words for:
1) “nature” (as in the nature of trees);
2) “automatic” or “natural” (in the sense of something that happens of own accord, and invariably happens in certain circumstances);
3) “existence”.
At a guess, there have always been ways to express such concepts in any particular language, but my query is whether these concepts were embodied in single words (or short phrases signifying these meanings) in Biblical Greek that could reasonably be translated as the words above, or whether the meanings of the words above entered language as single words at a later date.
If there are Biblical Greek words or phrases that can reasonably be translated as the meanings above, are there other meanings that can also be indicated by the same Biblical Greek words or phrases?
