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νηφάλεος

nēpháleos · G3524 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. sober, restrained

    (Derivative of νήφω ‘to be restrained,’) Pertaining to behaving in a sober, restrained manner

    Examples

    1 Timothy 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, skillful in teaching,

    1 Timothy 3:11 Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things.

    Titus 2:2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Sober, restrained88.87
Listing the qualifications for an overseer, 1 Timothy 3:2 states “An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, skillful in teaching,” where “temperate” renders this adjective for a person exercising restraint and moderation.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

νήφω nḗphō · G3525 · to be sober-minded, to be well composed in mind, to be self-controlled · 6×νηφάλεοςnēpháleos · G3524ἀνανήφω ananḗphō · G366 · to return to one’s right senses, to come back to one’s senses · 1×ἐκνήφω eknḗphō · G1594 · to come to one’s right senses, to change to a proper state of mind · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (so Rec.st in 1 Tim 3:2, 1 Tim 3:11 (where Rec.bez νηφαλαιος), after a later form) and…
(so Rec.st in 1 Tim 3:2, 1 Tim 3:11 (where Rec.bez νηφαλαιος), after a later form) and νηφάλιος (alone well attested (Hort)), νηφάλεον (in Greek authors generally of three term.; from νήφω), sober, temperate; abstaining from wine, either entirely (Josephus, Antiquities 3, 12, 2) or at least from its immoderate use: 1 Tim 3:2, 1 Tim 3:11; Tit 2:2. (In secular authors, especially Aeschylus and Plutarch, of things free from all infusion or addition of wine, as vessels, offerings, etc.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Self-Control, Lack of Self-Control3 occurrences

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

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