Original Word: ἐγκρατεύομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: egkrateuomai
Phonetic Spelling: (eng-krat-yoo'-om-ahee)
Definition: to exercise self-control
Usage: I exercise self-control, am continent.

Cognate: 1467 egkrateúomai – properly, to exercise self control – literally "exercising dominion, from within." See 1466 (enkrateia).

Word Origin
from egkratés
Definition
to exercise self-control
NASB Translation
exercises self-control (1), have self-control (1).

STRONGS NT 1467: ἐγκρατεύομαι

ἐγκρατεύομαι (see ἐν, III. 3); depon, middle; to be self-controlled, continent (ἐγκρατής); to exhibit self-government, conduct oneself temperately: (used absolutely in Genesis 43:30); with the dative of respect, τῇ γλώσσῃ, Sir. 19:6 variant; πάντα, in everything, every way, 1 Corinthians 9:25 (in a figure drawn from athletes, who in preparing themselves for the games abstained from unwholesome food, wine, and sexual indulgence); οὐκ ἐγκρατεύεσθαι, said of those who cannot curb sexual desire, 1 Corinthians 7:9. Though this word does not occur in the earlier Greek writings that have come down to us (except in Aristotle, eth. Eudem. 2, 7, p. 1223{b}, 13th edition, Bekker), yet its use is approved of by Phrynichus; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 442; (Winer's Grammar, 25).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

contain, be temperate.

Middle voice from egkrates; to exercise self-restraint (in diet and chastity) -- can(-not) contain, be temperate.

see GREEK egkrates

Forms and Transliterations

εγκρατείς εγκρατευεται εγκρατεύεται ἐγκρατεύεται εγκρατευονται εγκρατεύονται ἐγκρατεύονται ενεκρατευσάμην ενεκρατεύσατο enkrateuetai enkrateúetai enkrateuontai enkrateúontai

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