Sophrosyne means “soberness” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4997 — nod (“bottle”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4997 σωφροσύνη (sophrosune) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sophrosune (so-fros-oo'-nay) n. 1. soundness of mind 2. (literally) sanity It has 11 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include sobriety and soberness. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
sophrosune (so-fros-oo'-nay) n. 1. soundness of mind 2. (literally) sanity 3. (figuratively) self-control [from G4998] KJV: soberness, sobriety Root(s): G4998
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4997. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
mental soundness
Usage: σωφροσύνη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX: Est.3:13, Wis.8:7, 2Ma.4:37, 4Ma.6:1-35 * ;] __(a) soundness of mind, good sense, sanity (opposite to μανία, Xen.): Act.26:25; __(b) self-control, sobriety: 1Ti.2:9 (see Tr., Syn., § xx), 1Ti.2:15.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sophrosune, 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 G4997 (σωφροσύνη) appears 8 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Therefore Antiochus was heartily sorry, and moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and modest behavior of him that was dead.
If, then, reasoning appears to hold the mastery over the passions which stand in the way of temperance, such as gluttony and lust,
For reasoning does not rule over its own affections, but over such as are contrary to justice, and manliness, and temperance, and prudence; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them.
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4997.
But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Therefore Antiochus was heartily sorry, and moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and modest behavior of him that was dead.
If, then, reasoning appears to hold the mastery over the passions which stand in the way of temperance, such as gluttony and lust,
For reasoning does not rule over its own affections, but over such as are contrary to justice, and manliness, and temperance, and prudence; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them.
And the forms of wisdom are prudence, and justice, and manliness, and temperance.
For reasoning is the leader of the virtues, but it is the sole ruler of the passions. Observe then first, through the very things which stand in the way of temperance, that reasoning is absolute ruler of the passions.
Now temperance consists of a command over the lusts.
Yet it instructs us in temperance, so that we are superior to all pleasures and lusts; and it exercises us in manliness, so that we cheerfully undergo every grievance.
And if a man love righteousness, Her labors are virtues: For she teacheth temperance and prudence, Justice and fortitude: Which are such things, as men can have nothing more profitable in their life.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4997, grouped by book.
Sophrosyne (Strong's G4997) is a Greek word most simply glossed "soberness". sophrosune (so-fros-oo'-nay) n. 1. soundness of mind 2. (literally) sanity
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's G4997 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4997 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sobriety and soberness. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4997, with linked reader references where each row is available.