Greek noun (feminine) · G4997
σωφροσύνη
sophrosyneso-fros-oo'-nay
mental soundness
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sōphrosýnē
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4997is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4997
soundness of mind, i.e. (literally) sanity or (figuratively) self-control
The King James renders it: soberness, sobriety.
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
sophrosyne is rendered "mental soundness". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Timothy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 26:25But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.
Acts 26:25σωφροσύνης
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in 1 Timothy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- self-control1
- self-restraint1
- sobriety1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σωφρονέω | sophroneo | be of sound mind | Uses6 |
| σώφρων | sophron | self-controlled | Uses4 |
| σωφρόνως | sophronos | in self-control | Uses1 |
| σωφρονίζω | sophronizo | to train | Uses1 |
| σωφρονισμός | sophronismos | self-discipline | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings 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
- σωφροσύνης2
- σωφροσύνης.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular3N-GSF
Acts
one use
But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.
- σωφροσύνηςsophrosunesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: sobriety
1 Timothy
two uses
Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
- σωφροσύνηςsophrosunesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: self-control
Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.
- σωφροσύνης.¶sophrosunesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: self-restraint
Where it leads
On this page
Studies1
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.