noun · masculine

alazōnos

Greekἀλαζών (alazōn)

Strong’sG213

a boaster

stem alazōn-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

boasters1×boastful1×

What it means

ἀλαζών, -όνος, ὁ, ἡ

(< ἄλη, wandering), [in LXX: Jb 28:8 (שַׁחַץ) Hb 2:5 (יָהִיר), Pr 21:24 (לוּץ)*;]

prop, a vagabond, hence, an impostor, a boaster: Ro 1:30, II Ti 3:2.†

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.

Every form

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

alazōnstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

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 1:30“boastful”katalaloin, theostugoin, hubristoin, huperēfanoin, alazōnoin, efeuretoin kakeiu, gonevoi apeithoin,slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.