alazoneias

Strong’sG212

boasting, show, arrogant display

stem alazonei-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.

** ἀλαζονία (Rec. -εία, the earlier form), -ας, ἡ

(< ἀλαζών), [in LXX: Wi 5:8 17:7, 2; IV Mac 5:1-38*;]

the character of an ἀλαζών, boastfulness, vainglory, vaunting: Ja 4:16 (Mayor, in l.), I Jo 2:16.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G212 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidal-ad-zon-i'-a

braggadocio, i.e. (by implication) self-confidence

Fromfrom G213;

King Jamesboasting, pride.

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

ἀλαζ-ονεία, ἡ,
false pretension, imposture, Refs 5th c.BC+; boastfulness, Refs 6th c.AD+ their over-readiness to sound, opposed to ἐξάρνησις, Refs 5th c.BC+. [That penultimate is long appears from Ar.[same places], Refs 4th c.BC+

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.

arrogance1×pride1×

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	alazoneias1×ἀλαζονεία	alazoneiais
object accusative	alazoneian	alazoneiain
direct address vocative	alazoneiar	alazoneiair
of, belonging to genitive	alazoneiau	alazoneiaiu
to, for dative	alazoneia	alazoneiai1×ἀλαζονείαις

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

alazoneistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

alazoneia 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

alazoneias“pride”subjectnominative singular1×

1 John 2:16… tas epithumias toiu ofthalmoiu kai tas alazoneias tou biou, ouk atō ek tou …… desires of the eyes, and the pride of life — is not from the …

alazoneiai“arrogance”to, fordative plural1×

James 4:16“arrogance”nun de kauchovō en tai alazoneiai vu; pantas kauchēsias toioutas ponēras atō.As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.