- Transliteration: Egkrateuomai

- Phonetic: eng-krat-yoo'-om-ahee

- Definition:

1. to be self-controlled, continent

a. to exhibit self-government, conduct, one's self temperately

b. in a figure drawn from athletes, who in preparing themselves for the games abstained from unwholesome food, wine, and sexual indulgence

- Origin: middle voice from G1468" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1468

- TDNT entry: 07:39,2

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: Middle voice from G1468" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1468; to exercise self restraint (in diet and chastity): - can([-not]) contain be temperate.