Lexical Summary sōphronismos: self-control Original Word: σωφρονισμόςTransliteration: sōphronismos Phonetic Spelling: (so-fron-is-mos') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: self-control Meaning: self-control Strong's Concordance sound mind. From sophronizo; discipline, i.e. Self-control -- sound mind. see GREEK sophronizo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4995: σωφρονισμόςσωφρονισμός, σωφρονισμοῦ, ὁ ((σωφρονίζω); 1. an admonishing or calling to soundness of mind, to moderation and self-control: Josephus, Antiquities 17, 9, 2; b. j. 2, 1,3; Appendix, Pun. 8, 65; Aesop fab. 38; Plutarch; (Philo, legg. alleg. 3, 69). 2. self-control, moderation (σωφρονισμοι τινες ἤ μετανοιαι τῶν νέων, Plutarch, mor., p. 712 c. i. e. quaest. conviv. 8, 3): πνεῦμα σωφρονισμοῦ, 2 Timothy 1:7, where see Huther; (but Huther, at least in his later editions, takes the word transitively, equivalent to correction (R. V. discipline); see also Holtzmann at the passage). |
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