sōfronōs

Strong’sG4996

soberly, with moderation

stem sōfronō-once in the New Testamentnever changes form

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.

** σωφρόνως

adv.,

[in LXX: Wi 9:11 *;]

with sound mind, prudently, soberly: Tit 2:12.†

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

Strong’s G4996 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidso-fron'-oce

with sound mind, i.e. moderately

Fromadverb from G4998;

King Jamessoberly.

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

Included with: σώφρων,
Epic dialect and poetry σᾰόφρων (as in Refs 8th c.BC+, ονος, ὁ, ἡ: neuter σῶφρον:—properly of sound mind (from σῶς, φρήν, Refs 5th c.BC+: hence, discreet, prudent, οὐκ ἄν με σαόφρονα μυθήσαιο ἔμμεναι Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to ἄφρων, Refs 6th c.BC+; opposed to νήπιος, Refs; opposed to ἀνόητος, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of things, τοῖσι λόγοις σῶφρον ἔπεστιν ἄνθος Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. οἶκτος reasonable compassion, Refs 5th c.BC+; σῶφρόν ἐστι with infinitive, Refs
II in Attic dialect, especially having control over the sensual desires, temperate, self-controlled, chaste (σώφρων ὁ μετρίας ἐπιθυμίας ἔχων Refs 5th c.BC+; γυνὴ σ. NT+5th c.BC+
II.2 of things, σ. γνώμη Refs 4th c.BC+; σ. ὑμέναιοι, λέχη, Refs 5th c.BC+; τράπεζα, δίαιτα, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀριστοκρατία moderate, Refs 5th c.BC+; χάριςRefs 5th c.BC+
II.3 τὸ σῶφρον, ={σωφροσύνη}, Refs 5th c.BC+; σοῦ τὸ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+
III adverb -όνωςRefs 5th c.BC+; δικαίως πράττοντες καὶ σ. Refs; σ. ἐφέπεσθαι cautiously, Refs 5th c.BC+ adopt a more moderate constitution, Refs 5th c.BC+ but -εστέρως Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative -έσταταRefs 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.

Where it appears

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

sōfronōs1×

Titus 2:12“self-controlled”… tan asebeian kai tain kosmikain epithumiain sōfronōs kai dikaiōs kai eusebōs zōaneia en …… to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present …