Strong's #1467: egkrateuomai (pronounced eng-krat-yoo'-om-ahee)

middle voice from 1468; to exercise self-restraint (in diet and chastity):--can(-not) contain, be temperate.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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egkrateuomai

1) to be self-controlled, continent

1a) to exhibit self-government, conduct, one' s self temperately

1b) in a figure drawn from athletes, who in preparing themselves for the games abstained from unwholesome food, wine, and sexual indulgence

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: middle voice from G1468

Citing in TDNT: 2:339, 196

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

1 Corinthians 7:9: "But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better"
1 Corinthians 9:25: "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it"