akrasias

Strong’sG192

incontinence, intemperance, lack of restraint

stem akrasi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

** ἀκρασία, -ας, ἡ

(< ἀκρατής, q.v.), [in LXX: I Mac 6:26*;]

in Arist. and later writers = ἀκράτεια (Lft., Notes, 222 f.), want of power, hence want of self-control, incontinence: Mt 23:25, I Co 7:5.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G192 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidak-ras-ee'-a

want of self-restraint

Fromfrom G193;

King Jamesexcess, incontinency.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀκρᾰσ-ία,
Ionic dialect ἀκρᾰ-σίη,
B ={ἀκράτεια}, NT+7th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

lack of self-control1×self-indulgence1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	akrasias	akrasiais
object accusative	akrasian1×ἀκρασίαν	akrasiain
direct address vocative	akrasiar	akrasiair
of, belonging to genitive	akrasiau1×ἀκρασίας	akrasiaiu
to, for dative	akrasia	akrasiai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

akrasistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

akrasia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

akrasian“lack of self-control”objectaccusative singular1×

1 Corinthians 7:5… peirazateiō vin tos Satanos dia tan akrasian vu.… will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

akrasiau“self-indulgence”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Matthew 23:25… esōthen de gemalō ek harpagau kai akrasiau.… they are full of greed and self-indulgence.