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Greek adjective · G1468

ἐγκρατής

enkrateseng-krat-ace'

strong, powerful; C. genitive of thing(s); (sc. ἑαυτοῦ)

1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: enkratḗs

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1468is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling
  • 3
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G1468

strong in a thing (masterful), i.e. (figuratively and reflexively) self-controlled (in appetite, etc.)

The King James renders it: temperate.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

enkrates is rendered "strong, powerful; C. genitive of thing(s); (sc. ἑαυτοῦ)". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in Titus, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "strong, powerful".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Titus 1:8Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

The first use

Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

Titus 1:8ἐγκρατῆ

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: strong, powerful, and C. genitive of thing(s), and (sc. ἑαυτοῦ).

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
strong, powerfulTagged aslisted under the tableWhereTitus 1:8Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy…
C. genitive of thing(s)master of, henceTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below
(sc. ἑαυτοῦ)self -controlled, exercising self-controlTagged as
  • disciplined1
WhereTitus 1:8Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy…

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

ἐγκράτειαenkrateiaself-controlUses4
ἐγκρύπτωenkryptoto mixUses2
ἐγκρατεύομαιenkrateuomaito self-controlUses2
ἐγκρίνωenkrinoto classifyUses1

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἐγκρατῆ1

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM

Titus

one use
  • Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

    Titus 1:8

    • ἐγκρατῆegkrateadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: disciplined

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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