King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G4068
Transliteration: perpereuomai
Phonetic Spelling: (per-per-yoo'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to boast
Meaning: to boast
περπερεύομαι; (to be πέρπερος, i. e. vain-glorious, braggart, Polybius 32, 6, 5; 40, 6, 2; Epictetus diss. 3, 2, 14); to boast oneself (A. V. vaunt oneself): 1 Corinthians 13:4 (Antoninus 5, 5; the compound ἐμπερπερεύεσθαι is used of adulation, employing rhetorical embellishments in extolling another excessively, in Cicero, ad Attic. 1, 14. Hesychius περπερεύεται. κατεπαίρεται); Cf. Osiander (or Wetstein) on 1 Corinthians, the passage cited (Gataker on Marc. Antoninus 5, 5, p. 143).
Word Summary
perpereuomai: to boast
Original Word: περπερεύομαιTransliteration: perpereuomai
Phonetic Spelling: (per-per-yoo'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to boast
Meaning: to boast
Strong's Concordance
bragMiddle voice from perperos (braggart; perhaps by reduplication of the base of peran); to boast -- vaunt itself.
see GREEK peran
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4068: περπερεύομαιπερπερεύομαι; (to be πέρπερος, i. e. vain-glorious, braggart, Polybius 32, 6, 5; 40, 6, 2; Epictetus diss. 3, 2, 14); to boast oneself (A. V. vaunt oneself): 1 Corinthians 13:4 (Antoninus 5, 5; the compound ἐμπερπερεύεσθαι is used of adulation, employing rhetorical embellishments in extolling another excessively, in Cicero, ad Attic. 1, 14. Hesychius περπερεύεται. κατεπαίρεται); Cf. Osiander (or Wetstein) on 1 Corinthians, the passage cited (Gataker on Marc. Antoninus 5, 5, p. 143).