akratos

Strong’sG193

lacking self-control, inclined to excess

stem akrat-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.

ἀκρατής, -ές

(< κράτος), [in LXX: Pr 27:20*;]

(a) powerless, impotent;

(b) in moral sense, lacking self-control, incontinent: II Ti 3:3.†

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

Strong’s G193 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidak-rat'-ace

powerless, i.e. without self-control

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and G2904;

King Jamesincontinent.

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

ἀκρατ-ής, ές,
(κράτος) powerless, impotent, γῆραςRefs 5th c.BC+ of paralysed limbs, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 in Law, invalid, πρῆσιςRefs
II with genitive of things, not having power or command over a thing, γλώσσηςRefs 4th c.BC+; φωνῆς, παντὸς τοῦ σώματος, ἑωυτοῦ, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. τῶν χειρῶν, of persons with their hands tied, Refs 1st c.BC+; intemperate in the use of a thing, ἀφροδισίων, οἴνου, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. κέρδους, τιμῆς intemperate in pursuit of them, Refs 4th c.BC+infinitive, ἀ. εἴργεσθαί τινος unable to refrain from.., Refs 5th c.BC+adverb -τῶς, Ionic dialect -τέως, διακεῖσθαιRefs 5th c.BC+
II.2 absolutely in moral sense, without command over oneself or one's passions, incontinent, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb ἀκρατῶς, ἔχειν πρός τιRefs 5th c.BC+
II.3 of things, uncontrolled, immoderate, δαπάνηRefs 2nd c.AD+; οὖρον.. ἀκρατές incontinence of urine, Refs 2nd c.AD+; compare ἀκρᾰτί.

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.

without self-control1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	akratos	akratas	akratem	akratois1×ἀκρατεῖς	akratais	akrateim
object accusative	akraton	akratan		akratoin	akratain
direct address vocative	akrator	akratar		akratoir	akratair
of, belonging to genitive	akratou	akratau	akrateu	akratoiu	akrataiu	akrateiu
to, for dative	akrato	akrata	akrate	akratoi	akratai	akratei

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

akratstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

akrat 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

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

akratos — ἄκρατος, unmixed, undiluted

Where it appears

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

akratois“without self-control”subjectnominative plural1×

2 Timothy 3:3astorgois, aspondois, diabolois, akratois, anēmerois, afilagathois,unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,