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Strong's #4068 - περπερεύομαι
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- to boast one's self
- a self display, employing rhetorical embellishments in extolling one's self excessively
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περπερ-εύομαι,
boast, brag, 1 Corinthians 13:4, M.Ant. 5.5 .
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).
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*† περτερεύοραι
(< περπερος , vainglorious),
to boast or vaunt oneself: 1 Corinthians 13:4 (elsewhere. only in Antonin.; v. Abbott, Essays, 87).†
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";a flock";—the diminutive meaning, as in late Greek generally, cannot be pressed, cf. P Ryl II. 114.20 (c. A.D. 280), where a widow complains to the praefect that her husband’s former master had seized certain flocks belonging to the deceased, καὶ μέχρι τῆς σήμε [ρον οἰκειῶν τ ]υγχάνι τὰ ἡμέτερα ποίμνια, ";and until this day he remains in possession of our flocks"; (Edd.). Cf. Aristeas 170 βουκολίων καὶ ποιμνίων, ";herds and flocks.";
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