Definition

want of self-restraint

Etymology

from G193 (ἀκρατής);

Word family

• ἀκρατής akratḗs

How the KJV renders it

• excess
• incontinency

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.