noun · masculine
alazōnos
Strong’sG213
a boaster
stem alazōn-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἀλαζών, -όνος, ὁ, ἡ
(< ἄλη, wandering), [in LXX: Jb 28:8 (שַׁחַץ) Hb 2:5 (יָהִיר), Pr 21:24 (לוּץ)*;]
SYN.: ὐβριστής, ὑπερήφανος (v. Tr., Syn., § xxix; Lft., Notes, 256)
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G213 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidal-ad-zone'
braggart
Fromfrom ἄλη (vagrancy);
King Jamesboaster.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ἄλη) properly wanderer about country, vagrant, Refs 7th c.BC+
II charlatan, quack, especially of Sophists, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 braggart, boaster, Refs 5th c.BC+; title of play by Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 adjective, boastful, pretentious, Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative -έστεροςRefs most shameless, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb superlative -έστατα, δρω-νRefs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | alazōnos | alazōnois1×ἀλαζόνες |
| object accusative | alazōnon | alazōnoin1×ἀλαζόνας |
| direct address vocative | alazōnor | alazōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | alazōnou | alazōnoiu |
| to, for dative | alazōno | alazōnoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
alazōno is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
alazōnois“boasters”subjectnominative plural1×
2 Timothy 3:2“boasters”eli gar tois anthrōpois filautois, filargurois, alazōnois, huperēfanois, blasfēmois, gonevoi apeithois, acharistois, anosiois,For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
alazōnoin“boastful”objectaccusative plural1×
Romans 1:30katalaloin, theostugoin, hubristoin, huperēfanoin, alazōnoin, efeuretoin kakoseiu, gonevoi apeithoin,slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil …