Definition

to exercise self-restraint (in diet and chastity)

Etymology

middle voice from G1468 (ἐγκρατής);

Word family

• ἐγκρατής enkratḗs

How the KJV renders it

• can(-not) contain
• be temperate

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.