G1468

ἐγκρατής

egkratēsG:A

self-controlled

ἐγκρατής, -ές (κράτος), [in LXX: Wis.8:20, Sir.6:27 15:1 26:15 27:30, al. ;] __1. strong, powerful. __2. C. genitive of thing(s), master of, hence, __3. (sc. ἑαυτοῦ), self -controlled, exercising self-control: Tit.1:8. † SYN.: σώφρων (see reff. s. ἐγκράτεια). (AS)

The KJV translates G1468 in the following manner:

temperate (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

ἐγκρατής — enkratḗs

ἐγκρατής (see ἐν, III. 3), ἐγκρατες (κράτος);

1. properly, equivalent to ὁ ἐν κράτει ὤν, strong, robust: Aeschylus, Thucydides, and following.

2. having power over, possessed of (a thing), with a genitive of the object; so from (Sophocles and) Herodotus down.

3. mastering, controlling, curbing, restraining: ἀφροδισιων, Xenophon, mere. 1, 2, 1; ἠδωνης, ibid. 4, 5, 10; ἑαυτοῦ, Plato; absolutely (without a genitive), controlling oneself, temperate, continent, ((Aristotle, eth. Nic. 7, 4, p. 1146{b}, 10ff); Sir 26:15; Wis 8:21; Philo de Jos. § 11): Tit 1:8.

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