Original Word: σωφρονισμός, οῦ, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: sóphronismos
Phonetic Spelling: (so-fron-is-mos')
Short Definition: self-control, self-discipline
Definition: self-control, self-discipline, prudence.

Cognate: 4995 (a masculine noun derived from 4998 /sṓphrōn, "truly moderate") – properly, safe-minded, issuing in prudent ("sensible") behavior that "fits" a situation, i.e. aptly acting out God's will by doing what He calls sound reasoning (used only in 2 Tim 1:7). See 4998 (sōphrōn).

STRONGS NT 4995: σωφρονισμός

σωφρονισμός, σωφρονισμοῦ, ὁ ((σωφρονίζω);

1. an admonishing or calling to soundness of mind, to moderation and self-control: Josephus, Antiquities 17, 9, 2; b. j. 2, 1,3; Appendix, Pun. 8, 65; Aesop fab. 38; Plutarch; (Philo, legg. alleg. 3, 69).

2. self-control, moderation (σωφρονισμοι τινες ἤ μετανοιαι τῶν νέων, Plutarch, mor., p. 712 c. i. e. quaest. conviv. 8, 3): πνεῦμα σωφρονισμοῦ, 2 Timothy 1:7, where see Huther; (but Huther, at least in his later editions, takes the word transitively, equivalent to correction (R. V. discipline); see also Holtzmann at the passage).

sound mind.

From sophronizo; discipline, i.e. Self-control -- sound mind.

see GREEK sophronizo

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