Definition

akin to G837 (αὐξάνω) and G2744 (καυχάομαι)); to talk big, i.e. be grandiloquent (arrogant, egotistic)

Etymology

from a compound of G3173 (μέγας) and (to boast;

Where the KJV renders it

• boast great things

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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