noun · masculine
sōfronismos
Strong’sG4995
self-control, self-discipline
stem sōfronism-once in the New Testament1 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.
*† σωφρονισμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< σωφρονίζω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4995 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidso-fron-is-mos'
discipline, i.e. self-control
Fromfrom G4994;
King Jamessound mind.
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
teaching of morality or moderation, Refs 1st c.BC+; self-control, NT
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.
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 | sōfronismos | sōfronismois |
| object accusative | sōfronismon | sōfronismoin |
| direct address vocative | sōfronismor | sōfronismoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | sōfronismou1×σωφρονισμοῦ | sōfronismoiu |
| to, for dative | sōfronismo | sōfronismoi |
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
sōfronismo 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
sōfronismou“self-discipline”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Timothy 1:7“self-discipline”… deiliau, alla dunamiau kai agapau kai sōfronismou.… spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.