Enkrates means “temperate” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1468 — guz (“bring”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1468 ἐγκρατής (egkrates) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. egkrates (eng-krat-ace') adj. 1. strong in a thing (masterful) 2. (figuratively and reflexively) self-controlled (in appetite, etc.) It has 13 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include temperate. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
egkrates (eng-krat-ace') adj. 1. strong in a thing (masterful) 2. (figuratively and reflexively) self-controlled (in appetite, etc.) [from G1722 and G2904] KJV: temperate Root(s): G1722, G2904
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1468. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
self-controlled
Usage: ἐγκρατής, -ές (κράτος), [in LXX: Wis.8:20, Sir.6:27 15:1 26:15 27:30, al. ;] __1. strong, powerful. __2. C. genitive of thing(s), master of, hence, __3. (sc. ἑαυτοῦ), self -controlled, exercising self-control: Tit.1:8. † SYN.: σώφρων (see reff. s. ἐγκράτεια). (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render egkrates, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1468 (ἐγκρατής) appears 11 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
12 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then the angel said unto him, Take the fish. And the young man laid hold of the fish, and drew it to land.
Moreover of those that were with Timothy and Bacchides, who fought against them, they slew above twenty thousand, and very easily got high and strong holds, and divided among themselves many spoils more, and made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves.
and therewithal the Idumeans, having gotten into their hands the most commodious holds, kept the Jews occupied, and receiving those that were banished from Jerusalem, they went about to nourish war.
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1468.
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
Then the angel said unto him, Take the fish. And the young man laid hold of the fish, and drew it to land.
Moreover of those that were with Timothy and Bacchides, who fought against them, they slew above twenty thousand, and very easily got high and strong holds, and divided among themselves many spoils more, and made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves.
and therewithal the Idumeans, having gotten into their hands the most commodious holds, kept the Jews occupied, and receiving those that were banished from Jerusalem, they went about to nourish war.
and assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and slew all that fell into their hands, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.
And Judas, being apart with the elders, determined, before the king’s host should enter into Judea, and get the city, to go forth and try the matter in fight by the help of the Lord.
Nevertheless, when I perceived that I could not otherwise obtain her, except God gave her me; And that was a point of wisdom also to know whose gift she was; I prayed unto the Lord, and besought him, And with my whole heart I said,
Search, and seek, and she shall be made known unto thee: And when thou hast gotten hold of her, let her not go.
He that feareth the Lord will do good; And he that hath the knowledge of the law shall obtain her;
A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, And her continent mind cannot be valued.
Malice and wrath, even these are abominations; And the sinful man shall have them both.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1468, grouped by book.
Enkrates (Strong's G1468) is a Greek word most simply glossed "temperate". egkrates (eng-krat-ace') adj. 1. strong in a thing (masterful) 2. (figuratively and reflexively) self-controlled (in appetite, etc.)
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's G1468 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1468 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as temperate. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 12 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1468, with linked reader references where each row is available.
