Definition

self-control (especially continence)

Etymology

from G1468 (ἐγκρατής);

Word family

• ἐγκρατής enkratḗs

How the KJV renders it

• temperance

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.