Lexical Summary enkrateia: mastery, self-control Original Word: ἐγκράτειαTransliteration: enkrateia Phonetic Spelling: (eng-krat'-i-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: mastery, self-control Meaning: mastery, self-control Strong's Concordance temperance. From egkrates; self-control (especially continence) -- temperance. see GREEK egkrates Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1466: ἐγκράτειαἐγκράτεια (see ἐν III. 3), ἐγκρατείας, ἡ, (ἐγκρατής), self-control, Latincontinentia, temperantia (the virtue of one who masters his desires and passions, especially his sensual appetites): Acts 24:25; Galatians 5:23 (22); 2 Peter 1:6. (Xenophon, Plato, and following; Sir. 18:29; 4 Macc. 5:34.) |
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