Original Word: ἐγκρατής, ές
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: egkratés
Phonetic Spelling: (eng-krat-ace')
Short Definition: self-controlled
Definition: self-controlled.

Cognate: 1468 egkratḗs(see 1466 /egkráteia) – properly, self-controlled – literally, "mastered from within" (used only in Tit 1:8); "originally, 'having power over; possessed of'; hence, 'controlling, keeping in hand,' . . . 'temperance' " (WS, 1074). See 1466 (enkrateia).

STRONGS NT 1468: ἐγκρατής

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): Titus 1:8.

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

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