G4998 σώφρων
sṓphrōn — safe (sound) in mind, i.e. self-controlled (moderate as to opinion or passion)
KJV: discreet, sober, temperate
Built from σώζω sṓzō (to save, i.e. deliver or protect) + φρήν phrḗn (the midrif)
Occurs 14 times. Every verse with this word
Where it occurs
- 1 Timothy 3:2 — The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good…
- Titus 1:8 — but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,
- Titus 2:2 — that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance,
- Titus 2:5 — to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not…
- 4 Maccabees 1:35 — For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the…
- 4 Maccabees 2:2 — on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the…
- 4 Maccabees 2:16 — For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant emotions, as it does wrath; for it masters even this.
- 4 Maccabees 2:18 — For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the emotions, and to correct some and destroy others.
- 4 Maccabees 2:23 — He gave a law to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, just, good, and courageous reign.
- 4 Maccabees 3:17 — For the temperate mind has power to conquer the pressure of the emotions, to quench the fires of excitement,