Lexicon alazón: vagabond, hence an impostor, boaster Original Word: ἀλαζών, όνος, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: alazón Phonetic Spelling: (al-ad-zone') Short Definition: a boaster Definition: a boaster, one who gives one's self airs in a loud and flaunting way. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 213 alazṓn (a masculine noun) – properly, a wandering vagrant (vagabond), boasting to anyone who is foolish enough to take him seriously! This kind of person claims many things he can't really do, so he must always keep moving on to new, naive listeners. [As a masculine noun, 213 (alazṓn) tends to focus on the source of the empty boasting, i.e. the sinful arrogance that drives it.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alé (wandering) Definitionvagabond, hence an impostor, boaster NASB Translationboastful (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 213: ἀλαζώνἀλαζών, (ονος, ὁ, ἡ ( ἄλη, wandering) (from Aristophanes on), an empty pretender, a boaster: Romans 1:30; 2 Timothy 3:2. ( Trench, § xxix.; Tittmann i., p. 73f; Schmidt, chapter 172, 2.)
Strong's boaster. From ale (vagrancy); braggart -- boaster. |
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