Alazoneia means “boasting” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H212 — ophan (“wheel”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G212 ἀλαζονεία (alazoneia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. alazoneia (al-ad-zon-ei'-a) n. 1. Empty boasting, mere bragging 2. (by implication) self-confidence It has 9 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include pride. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
alazoneia (al-ad-zon-ei'-a) n. 1. Empty boasting, mere bragging 2. (by implication) self-confidence [from G213] KJV: boasting, pride Root(s): G213
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G212. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
boasting
Usage: ἀλαζονία(Rec. -εία, the earlier form), -ας, ἡ (ἀλαζών), [in LXX: Wis.5:8 17:7, 2; 4Ma.5:1-38 * ;] the character of an ἀλαζών, boastfulness, vainglory, vaunting: Jas.4:16 (Mayor, in l), 1Jn.2:16.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render alazoneia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G212 (ἀλαζονεία) appears 7 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the waves of the sea (so proud was he beyond the condition of men) and weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in a horse litter, showing forth unto all the manifest power of God.
So Nicanor in exceeding pride and haughtiness determined to set up a public monument of his victory over Judas and them that were with him.
In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G212.
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the waves of the sea (so proud was he beyond the condition of men) and weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in a horse litter, showing forth unto all the manifest power of God.
So Nicanor in exceeding pride and haughtiness determined to set up a public monument of his victory over Judas and them that were with him.
In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye.
And reasoning appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and arrogance, and loud boasting, and slander.
Let us have compassion upon our age and relent over the years of our mother.
What hath pride profited us? Or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us?
As for the illusions of art magic, they were put down, And their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G212, grouped by book.
Alazoneia (Strong's G212) is a Greek word most simply glossed "boasting". alazoneia (al-ad-zon-ei'-a) n. 1. Empty boasting, mere bragging 2. (by implication) self-confidence
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G212 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G212 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pride. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G212, with linked reader references where each row is available.