Word: egkrateuomai

Pronounce: eng-krat-yoo'-om-ahee

Strongs Number: G1467

Orig: middle voice from 1468; to exercise self-restraint (in diet and chastity):--can(-not) contain, be temperate. G1468

Use: TDNT-2:339,196 Verb

Heb Strong: H662

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