ἈΛΑΖΩΝ, ἀλαζων
ALAZŌN, alazōn
Sounds Like: ah-lah-ZOHN
Translations: boastful, a boaster, arrogant, an arrogant person, presumptuous, a presumptuous person
From the root: ἈΛΑΖΩΝ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word describes someone who is boastful, arrogant, or presumptuous. It can be used as an adjective to describe a person's character, or as a noun to refer to such a person. It implies an empty or vain display of superiority, often without substance.
Inflection: Masculine or Feminine, Nominative, Singular
Strong’s number: G213 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 10:264
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 2:80
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Proverbs — 21:24
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΛΑΖΩΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΛΑΖΟΝΑΣ — boasters, boastful, arrogant, a boaster, an arrogant one
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