STRONGS G4995:
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).
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