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Braggart

ἀλαζώνStrong’s G0213

alazōn

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Alazōn is the Greek word usually translated “boastful”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,”
Romans 1:30 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “boastful”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • boastful 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Romans 1
  • 2 Timothy 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

ἀλαζών alazōn · braggart

ἀλαζών, -όνος, ὁ, ἡ (ἄλη, wandering) [in LXX: Job.28:8 (שַׁחַץ) Hab.2:5 (יָהִיר), Pro.21:24 (לוּץ)* ;] prop, a vagabond, hence, an impostor, a boaster: Rom.1:30, 2Ti.3:2.† SYN.: ὐβριστής, ὑπερήφανος (see Tr., Syn., § xxix; Lft., Notes, 256) (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “braggart” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BRAG'GART, noun

[brag and art, ard, kind.]

A boaster; a vain fellow.

    All definitions and other forms of “braggart”

      BRAG'GART, adjective

      Boastful; vainly ostentatious.

        Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

        Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.