# G4998 σώφρων

σώφρων (sṓphrōn), Strong’s G4998: safe (sound) in mind, i.e. self-controlled (moderate as to opinion or passion) KJV: discreet, sober, temperate. Occurs 14 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/G4998 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*sṓphrōn* — safe (sound) in mind, i.e. self-controlled (moderate as to opinion or passion)

KJV: discreet, sober, temperate

Built from [σώζω sṓzō](https://besorah.bible/word/G4982) (to save, i.e. deliver or protect) + [φρήν phrḗn](https://besorah.bible/word/G5424) (the midrif)

Occurs 14 times.

## Where it occurs
- [1 Timothy 3:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-timothy/3?v=2) — The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good…
- [Titus 1:8](https://besorah.bible/besorah/titus/1?v=8) — but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,
- [Titus 2:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/titus/2?v=2) — that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance,
- [Titus 2:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/titus/2?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/1?v=35) — For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the…
- [4 Maccabees 2:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/2?v=2) — on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the…
- [4 Maccabees 2:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/2?v=16) — For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant emotions, as it does wrath; for it masters even this.
- [4 Maccabees 2:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/2?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/2?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/3?v=17) — For the temperate mind has power to conquer the pressure of the emotions, to quench the fires of excitement,