Lexical Summary enkratēs: strong, master of, self-controlled Original Word: ἐγκρατήςTransliteration: enkratēs Phonetic Spelling: (eng-krat-ace') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: strong, master of, self-controlled Meaning: strong, master of, self-controlled Strong's Concordance temperate. From en and kratos; strong in a thing (masterful), i.e. (figuratively and reflexively) self-controlled (in appetite, etc.) -- temperate. see GREEK en see GREEK kratos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1468: ἐγκρατήςἐγκρατής (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): Titus 1:8. |
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