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Strong's #1467 - ἐγκρατεύομαι
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- to be self-controlled, continent
- to exhibit self-government, conduct, one's self temperately
- in a figure drawn from athletes, who in preparing themselves for the games abstained from unwholesome food, wine, and sexual indulgence
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ἐγκρατ-εύομαι,
I exercise self-control, Arist. EE 1223b12, LXX Genesis 43:31;1 Corinthians 7:9; force oneself to do a thing, LXX 1 Samuel 13:12; starve oneself, Vett.Val. 127.20 (cf. ἀποκαρτερεῖν).
II to be a member of the Encratite sect, Anatolian Studies 87 (Phrygia).
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).
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ἐγκρατεύομαι ,
depon.,
[in LXX for H662, Genesis 43:31, 1 Kings 13:12, Ezra 5:10 א 3 *;]
to exercise self-control: 1 Corinthians 7:9; c. acc, πάντα (v. Bl., 91), 1 Corinthians 9:25.†
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With the Christian inscription cited s.v. ἐγκράτεια sub fin. may be compared another inscription erected in honour of a certain Orestina ";who lived in continence";—ἐνκρατευσαμένη (Ath. Mittheil., 1888, p. 272) : see Ramsay Luke, p. 399 f. where ";no extravagant asceticism"; is thought to be implied in any of these terms.
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