ἐγκρατεύομαι
to be self-controlled
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (50%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1467 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 7:9 ἐγκρατεύονται pres mid/pass.dep ind 3pl But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.
- 1 Corinthians 9:25 ἐγκρατεύεται pres mid/pass.dep ind 3sg Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
εγκρατευομαι (enkrateúomai) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to be self-controlled.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. It clusters heavily in 1 Corinthians, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It first appears in 1 Corinthians 7:9. From the same root come εγκρατης and εγκρατεια. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1467 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Contain 1×, Is temperate 1×, They 1×
- American Standard Version: Continency 1×, Exerciseth self-control 1×, They 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: They cannot control themselves 1×, Trains with strict discipline 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Exercises self control 1×, Have self control 1×, They do 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1467 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1467 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1467 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1467 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to be self-controlled, continent
Word origin
Derived from εγκρατης (enkratḗs) (G1468) — strong.
Middle voice from G1468 ; to exercise self restraint (in diet and chastity): - can([-not]) contain be temperate.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1467 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐγκρατεύεται enkrateúetai | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 9:25 | 1 |
| ἐγκρατεύονται enkrateúontai | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | 1 Corinthians 7:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1467, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εγκρατευομαι appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 43:31 ἐνκρατεύομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1467) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1467) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
