σώφρων, σωφρον (from σάος, contracted σῶς (cf. σῴζω, at the beginning), and φρήν, hence, the poetic σαοφρων; cf. ἄφρων, ταπεινόφρων, μεγαλόφρων) (from Homer down); a. of sound mind, sane, in one's senses (see σωφρονέω, a. and σωφροσύνη, a.). b. curbing one's desires and impulses, self-controlled, temperate (R. V. soberminded) ((ἐπιθυμεῖ ὁ σώφρων ὧν δεῖ καί ὡς δεῖ καί ὅτε, Aristot eth. Nic. 3, 15 at the end), see (σωφροσύνη, b.): 1Ti_3:2; Tit_1:8; Tit_2:2; Tit_2:5. STRONGS NT 4998a: τ [τ ,Tau: on the receding (ττ( in the vocabulary of the N. T. before (σς(, see under Sigma.]

σώφρων sōphrōn 4x of a sound mind, sane; temperate, discreet, 1Ti_3:2 ; Tit_1:8 ; Tit_2:2 ; modest, chaste, Tit_2:5

** σώφρων , -ον , [in LXX : 4Ma_9:1-32 * ;] (a) of sound mind, sane, sensible; (b) self-controlled, sober-minded: 1Ti_3:2 , Tit_1:8 ; Tit_2:2 ; Tit_2:5 ( Arist .).†

σώφρων [page 622] In illustration of Tit_2:2 ; Tit_2:5 where the young women are exhorted φιλάνδρους εἶναι , φιλοτέκνους , σώφρονας , loving to their husbands, loving to their children, soberminded, Deissmann ( LAE 2 , p. 315) has collected a number of exx. of this same use of σώφρων , as an ideal of womanhood, e.g. BCH xxv. (1901) p. 88 ἡ σόφρων ( sic ) καὶ φίλανδρος γυνὴ γενομένη , and ib . xxii. (1898), p. 496, ἡ φίλανδρος καὶ σ [ώ ]φρων ἡ φιλόσοφος ζήσασα κοσμίως (cf. 1Ti_2:9 ). In view of this, and of what is stated s.v . σωφροσύνη , we may be allowed to refer to a striking passage in Gilbert Murray s Rise of the Greek Epic .3 , p. 26, in which σώφρων or σαόφρων , with saving thoughts, is contrasted with ὀλοόφρων , with destructive thoughts. There is a way of thinking which destroys and a way which saves. The man or woman who is sτphrτn walks among the beauties and perils of the world, feeling the love, joy, anger, and the rest; and through all he has that in his mind which saves. Whom does it save? Not him only, but, as we should say, the whole situation. It saves the imminent evil from coming to be.

σώφρων σώ-φρων, epic σα^ό-φρων, ονος, ὁ, ἡ, [Etym: σῶς, φρήν] "of sound mind", Lat. sanae mentis:— hence "sensible, discreet, wise", Hom. , Hdt. , Xen. of things, σώφρονα εἰπεῖν Eur. ; ἄλλο τι σωφρονέστερον γιγνώσκειν Thuc. :— σῶφρόν ἐστι, c. inf., id=Thuc. "having control over the sensual desires, temperate, self-controlled, moderate, chaste, sober", Trag. , Plat. , etc.:—so, ς. γνώμη Aesch. ; ς. ἀριστοκρατία Thuc. τὸ σῶφρον ῀ σωφροσύνη, Eur. , Thuc. , etc. adv. -όνως, Hdt. —comp. σωφρονέστερον, Thuc. ; so, ἐπὶ τὸ σωφρονέστερον Hdt. :—but -εστέρως, Eur. :—Sup. -έστατα, Isocr.

σώφρων, -ον [in LXX: 4Ma.9:1-32 * ;] __(a) of sound mind, sane, sensible; __(b) self-controlled, sober-minded: 1Ti.3:2, Tit.1:8 2:2, 5 (Arist.).† (AS)