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Strong's #4997: sophrosune (pronounced so-fros-oo'-nay)

from 4998; soundness of mind, i.e. (literally) sanity or (figuratively) self-control:--soberness, sobriety.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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sōphrosunē

1) soundness of mind

2) self-control, sobriety

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G4998

Citing in TDNT: 7:1097, 1150




Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Acts 26:25: "I speak forth the words of truth and soberness."
1 Timothy 2:9: "with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or"
1 Timothy 2:15: "and holiness with sobriety."









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