- Transliteration: Egkrates

- Phonetic: eng-krat-ace'

- Definition:

1. strong, robust

2. having power over, possessed of (a thing)

3. mastering, controlling, curbing, restraining

a. controlling one's self, temperate, continent

- Origin: from G1722" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1722 and G2904" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2904

- TDNT entry: 07:39,2

- Part(s) of speech: Adjective

- Strong's: From G1722" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1722 and G2904" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2904; strong in a thing (masterful) that is (figuratively and reflexively) self controlled (in appetite etc.): - temperate.