adjective

enkratos

Greekἐγκρατής (enkratēs)

Strong’sG1468

self-controlled

stem enkrat-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

self-controlled1×

What it means

** ἐγκρατής, -ές

(< κράτος), [in LXX: Wi 8:20, Si 6:27 15:1 26:15 27:30, al.;]

1. strong, powerful.

2. C. gen. rei, master of, hence,

3. (sc. ἑαυτοῦ), self -controlled, exercising self-control: Tit 1:8.†

SYN.: σώφρων (v. reff. s. ἐγκράτεια).

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

Strong’s G1468 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saideng-krat-ace'

strong in a thing (masterful), i.e. (figuratively and reflexively) self-controlled (in appetite, etc.)

Fromfrom G1722 and G2904;

King Jamestemperate.

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

Every form

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	enkratos	enkratas	enkratem	enkratois	enkratais	enkrateim
object accusative	enkraton1×ἐγκρατῆ	enkratan		enkratoin	enkratain
direct address vocative	enkrator	enkratar		enkratoir	enkratair
of, belonging to genitive	enkratou	enkratau	enkrateu	enkratoiu	enkrataiu	enkrateiu
to, for dative	enkrato	enkrata	enkrate	enkratoi	enkratai	enkratei

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

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

enkrat 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

enkraton“self-controlled”objectaccusative singular1×

Titus 1:8“self-controlled”alla filoxenon, filagathon, sōfrōnon, dikaion, hosion, enkraton,Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.