What does ἀλαζονεία (alazoneía) mean in the Bible?
ἀλαζονεία (alazoneía) is a Greek word meaning "boasting".
Greek · G212
ἀλαζονεία
Boasting
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ἀλαζονείαG212
Pronunciationalazoneía
What does ἀλαζονεία (alazoneía) mean in the Bible?
ἀλαζονεία (alazoneía) is a Greek word meaning "boasting".
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How does the BSB render G212?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include pride (1), proud intentions (1).
Where does ἀλαζονεία (alazoneía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at James 4:16. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 John (1), James (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itpride1×1 John 2:16
proud intentions1×James 4:16
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowJames 4:16
Aligned rows2
Books represented2
James11 John1
Source forms
ἀλαζονεία*1xalazoneia1 John 2:16
ἀλαζονείαις*1xalazoneiaisJames 4:16
Parsing patterns
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural1xJames 4:16
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular1x1 John 2:16
Evidence Summary
Greek word. boasting
Strong'sG212
Lexical occurrences2 versesGreek text appearances2 timesWord forms2 forms2 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
boasting
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
James 4:16Noun Dative Plural Feminine
ἀλαζονείαιςalazoneiaiv
boasting, show, arrogant display
Read verse1 John 2:16Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
ἀλαζονείαalazoneia
boasting, show, arrogant display
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns2Aligned forms2Case patternDative (1)Number patternPlural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Feminine1 John 2:161×
Dative · Plural · FeminineJas 4:161×
Word Origins
ἀλαζονεία is built from this root:
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