Quick Definition
περπερεύομαι v. I boast
Strong's Definition
middle voice from perperos (braggart; perhaps by reduplication of the base of 4008); to boast
KJV Usage: vaunt itself
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | πέρπερος (bragger)
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
περπερεύομαι ; (to be πέρπερος, i. e. vain-glorious, braggart, Polyb. 32, 6,5; 40, 6, 2; Epict. diss. 3, 2, 14); to boast one’s self [A. V. vaunt one’s self]: 1 Co. xiii. 4 (Antonin. 5, 5; the compound ἐμπερπερεύεσθαι is used of self-display, employing rhetorical embellishments in extolling one’s self excessively, in Cic. ad Attic. 1, 14. Hesych. περπερεύεται" κατεπαίρεται) ; cf. Osiander [or Wetstein] on 1 Co. 1. c. [Gataker on Marc. Antonin. 5, 5 p. 1451." Tlepols [lit. ‘a Persian woman’, 4, ace.-ida, Persis, a Christian woman: Ro. xvi. 12.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
περπερεύομαι perpereuomai 1x
to vaunt one’s self, 1 Cor. 13:4*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† περπερεύομαι
(< περπερος, vainglorious),
to boast or vaunt oneself: I Co 13:4 (elsewh. only in Antonin.; v. Abbott, Essays, 87).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
περπερεύομαι, ‘«play the braggart,’’ which meets us first in 1 Cor 134, occurs later in M. Anton. v. 5, where it is associated with ἀρεσκεύομαι, ““ play the toady.” Mr. W.K. L. Clarke kindly supplies us with a reference to Basil Regu/ae xlix. 423 A: τί ἐστὶ τὸ περπερεύεσθαι ; πᾶν ὃ μὴ διὰ χρείαν, ἀλλὰ διὰ καλλωπισμὸν παραλαμβάνεται, περπερείας ἔχει κατηγορίαν. The compd. ἐνπερπερεύομαι is found in nearly the same sense in Cic. az Att. i. 14. 4: cf. also Epict. ii. 1. 34. For the connexion of the verb with δαῦ2έξ, ‘* puff up,” see Boisacq, Pp: 774
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
περπερεύομαι (perpereuomai) — to boast. περπερ-εύομαι, boast, brag, [NT+2nd c.AD+]