G1466 – egkrateia – ἐγκράτεια – an inner strength
- Strong’s ID:
- G1466
- Greek Word:
- ἐγκράτεια
- Transliteration:
- egkrateia
- Pronunciation:
- eng-krat’-i-ah
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Etymology:
- from G1468
- Usage Count:
- 4
- Search:
- Find “egkrateia” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
an inner strength
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G1468; self-control (especially continence):—temperance.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) self-control (the virtue of one who masters his desires and passions, especially his sensual appetites)
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.