1) strong, robust
2) having power over, possessed of (a thing)
3) mastering, controlling, curbing, restraining
3a) controlling one's self, temperate, continent
Part of Speech: adjective
Citing in TDNT: 2:339, 196
G1468
From G1722 and G2904; strong in a thing (masterful), that is, (figuratively and reflexively) self controlled (in appetite, etc.): - temperate.
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University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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