Strong's Number G1467

Transliteration:

egkrateuomai{eng-krat-yoo'-om-ahee}

Word Origin:

middle voice from 1468

TDNT:

2:339,196

Part of Speech:

verb

Usage in the KJV:

can contain 1, be temperate 1

Total: 2

Definition:

to be self-controlled, continent
1. to exhibit self-government, conduct, one's self temperately
2. in a figure drawn from athletes, who in preparing themselves for the games abstained from unwholesome food, wine, and sexual indulgence