Original Word: νηφάλιος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: néphalios
Pronunciation: nay-FAL-ee-os
Phonetic Spelling: (nay-fal'-eh-os)
KJV: sober
NASB: temperate
Word Origin: [from G3525 (νήφω - sober)]

1. sober
2. (figuratively) circumspect

sober.

Or nephalios (nay-fal'-ee-os) from nepho; sober, i.e. (figuratively) circumspect -- sober.

see GREEK nepho

Cognate: 3524 nēpháleos (an adjective, derived from 3525 /nḗphō, "to be sober") – properly, not intoxicated, free from negative influences (intoxicants); (figuratively) clear-minded; circumspect ("sober"), free from life-dominating influences.

Word Origin
from néphó
Definition
sober
NASB Translation
temperate (3).

STRONGS NT 3524: νηφαλέος

νηφαλέος (so Rec.st in 1 Timothy 3:2, 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 Timothy 3:2, 11; Titus 2:2. (In secular authors, especially Aeschylus and Plutarch, of things free from all infusion or addition of wine, as vessels, offerings, etc.)

Forms and Transliterations

νηφαλιον νηφάλιον νηφαλιους νηφαλίους nephalion nephálion nēphalion nēphálion nephalious nephalíous nēphalious nēphalíous

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