ἀκρασία
akrasía · G192 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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lack of self-control, failure to control oneself
To fail to exercise self-control
ExamplesMatthew 23:25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence.
1 Corinthians 7:5 Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύyou 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- διάthrough 2
- ἐκfrom 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀσέλγεια asélgeia · G766 · licentious behavior, extreme immorality
- Both denote lack of moral restraint, though ἀσέλγεια emphasizes outward licentiousness and wanton behavior while ἀκρασία focuses on the internal failure of self-control; they overlap significantly in describing unrestrained conduct
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Lack of self-control, failure to control oneself88.91
- In 1 Corinthians 7:5, Paul warns married couples not to withhold marital relations for long, “so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control (akrasían hymōn),” naming a failure to master one's own desires.
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ας, ἡ (ἀκρατής), want of self-control, incontinence, intemperance: Mt 23:25 (Griesbach…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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