2 Corinthians 5:13
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
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Sober
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1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
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νήφω
nḗphō · nay'-fo
4 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to abstain from wine (keep sober), i.e. (figuratively) be discreet
Strong's KJV usage: :--be sober, watch.
Strong's first: 1 Thessalonians 5:6Strong's last: 1 Peter 5:8
Open full G3525 profile →νηφάλεος
nēpháleos · nay-fal'-eh-os
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
sober, i.e. (figuratively) circumspect
Strong's KJV usage: :--sober.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Timothy 3:11Strong's last: Titus 2:2
Open full G3524 profile →σωφρονέω
sōphronéō · so-fron-eh'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to be of sound mind, i.e. sane, (figuratively) moderate
Strong's KJV usage: :--be in right mind, be sober (minded), soberly.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 5:13Strong's last: 1 Peter 4:7
Open full G4993 profile →σώφρων
sṓphrōn · so'-frone
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
safe (sound) in mind, i.e. self-controlled (moderate as to opinion or passion)
Strong's KJV usage: :--discreet, sober, temperate.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Timothy 3:2Strong's last: Titus 1:8
Open full G4998 profile →σωφρονίζω
sōphronízō · so-fron-id'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to make of sound mind, i.e. (figuratively) to discipline or correct
Strong's KJV usage: :--teach to be sober.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Titus 2:4Strong's last: Titus 2:4
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For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
G3525
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
G3525
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
G4998
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
G3524
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
G4998
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
G3524
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
G4994
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
no direct Strong's tag
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
G3525
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
G4993
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
G3525
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
English meaning and historical usage.
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sober
SO'BER, adjective [Latin sobrius.]
1. Temperate in the use of spiritous liquors; habitually temperate; as a sober man. Live a sober righteous and godly life.
2. Not intoxicated or overpowered by spiritous liquors; not drunken. The sot may at times be sober
3. Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary or heated with passion; having the regular exercise of cool dispassionate reason. There was not a sober person to be had; all was tempestuous and blustering. Not sober man would put himself in danger, for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck.
4. Regular; calm; not under the influence of passion; as sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
5. Serious; solemn; grave; as the sober livery of autumn. What parts gay France from sober Spain? See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby.
SO'BER, verb transitive TO make sober; to cure of intoxication. There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain and drinking largely sobers us again.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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