enkratos

Strong’sG1468

self-controlled

stem enkrat-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.

** 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.

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

ἐγκρατ-ής, ές,
(κράτος) in possession of power, Refs 5th c.BC+
II holding fast, χεὶρ -εστάτη a hand with the firmest hold, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 stout, strong, ἐ. σθένει Refs 5th c.BC+
III with genitive of things, having possession of, χωρέων Refs 5th c.BC+; ναὸς ἐγκρατῆ πόδα the sheet that controls the ship, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐ. αὑτῶν masters of themselves, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 absolutely, master of oneself, self-controlled, Refs 5th c.BC+; self-disciplined, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV adverb -τῶς, Ionic dialect - τέως Refs 5th c.BC+; with a strong hand, by force, ἄρχειν Refs 5th c.BC+; -τέως forcibly, Refs 3rd c.BC+
IV.2 with self-control, temperately, ἐ. ἔχειν Refs 5th 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.

self-controlled1×

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	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

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

enkraton“self-controlled”objectaccusative singular1×

Titus 1:8alla filoxenon, filagathon, sōfronon, dikaion, hosion, enkraton,… be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.