Word

ἀλαζονεία

alazoneía · G212 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

false arrogance, pretentious pride, boastful haughtiness

A state of pride or arrogance, but with the implication of complete lack of basis for such an attitude

Examples
James 4:16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

σύyou 1
βίοςlife, livelihood 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

κόσμοςworld 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐνin 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

ὑπερηφανία hyperēphanía · G5243 · pride, arrogance, haughtiness: The target term ἀλαζονεία and ὑπερηφανία (“haughtiness”) both denote arrogant pride; ἀλαζονεία emphasizes the boastful, pretentious expression of pride (false arrogance), while ὑπερηφανία denotes the haughty attitude itself — a genuine nuance within a shared sense of arrogance.

Semantic domains 1 entry

False arrogance, pretentious pride, boastful haughtiness88.219: In 1 John 2:16, “the boastful pride (alazoneía) of life” is named alongside the lust of the flesh and the eyes as something “not from the Father, but... from the world,” describing a pretentious, self-important boasting.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀλαζών alazṓn · G213 · braggart, arrogant person · 2×ἀλαζονείαalazoneía · G212

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon and ἀλαζονία (which spelling, not uncommon in later Greek, T WH adopt (see Iota)),…

and ἀλαζονία (which spelling, not uncommon in later Greek, T WH adopt (see Iota)), ἀλαζονείας, ἡ (from ἀλαζονεύομαι, i. e. to act the ἀλαζών, which see);
a. in secular writings (from Aristophanes down) generally empty, bragqart talk sometimes also empty display in act, swagger. For illustration see Xenophon, Cyril 2, 2, 12; mem. 1, 7; Aristotle, eth. Nic. 4, 13, p. 1127, Bekker edition; (also Trench, § xxix.), b. "an insolent and empty assurance, which trusts in its own power and resources and shamefully despises and violates divine laws and human riqhts:" 2 Macc. 9:8; Wis. 5:8.
c. an impious and empty presumption which trusts in the stability of earthly things, (R. V. vaunting): Jas 4:16 (where the plural has reference to the various occasions on which this presumption shows itself; (cf. Winers Grammar, § 27, 3; Buttmann, 77 (67))); τοῦ βίου, display in one's style of living, (R. V. vainglory), 1 Jn 2:16.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Arrogance, Haughtiness, Pride2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0