Bible Dictionary: Boasts

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Greek

850a. aucheo -- to boast
... to boast. Transliteration: aucheo Short Definition: boasts. Word Origin from auche
(boasting) Definition to boast NASB Word Usage boasts (1). 850, 850a. ...
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212. alazoneia -- boastfulness
... 212 (a feminine noun derived from , "wandering, roaming") -- properly, a vagabond
("quack"), making empty boasts about having "cures" to rid people of all ...
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2744. kauchaomai -- to boast
... Word Origin of uncertain origin Definition to boast NASB Word Usage boast (24),
boasted (1), boasting (3), boasts (2), exult (3), glory (2), take pride (1). ...
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Strong's Hebrew

907. bad -- empty, idle talk
... 906, 907. bad. 908 . empty, idle talk. Transliteration: bad Phonetic
Spelling: (bad) Short Definition: boasts. Word Origin from ...
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1984b. halal -- to be boastful, to praise
... root Definition to be boastful, to praise NASB Word Usage acted insanely (1), arrogant
(1), boast (9), boasted (1), boastful (3), boasts (3), boasts boast (1 ...
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Library

On the Letter of Pelagius, in which He Boasts that his Errors had ...
... A work on the proceedings of pelagius, Chapter 54 [XXX.]"On the Letter of Pelagius,
in Which He Boasts that His Errors Had Been Approved by Fourteen Bishops. ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 54 xxx on the letter.htm

Whether Boasting is a Mortal Sin?
... It will be a mortal sin when a man boasts of that which is contrary to God's
glory"-thus it is said in the person of the king of Tyre (Ezech.28:2): "Thy ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether boasting is a mortal.htm

The Tenth Book Discusses the Unattainable and Incomprehensible
... little further on he contends against those who acknowledge that human nature is
too weak to conceive what cannot be grasped, and with lofty boasts enlarges on ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 1 the tenth book.htm

Thou Shalt have no Other Gods Before Me.
... Many a one thinks that he has God and everything in abundance when he has money
and possessions; he trusts in them and boasts of them with such firmness and ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/luther/the large catechism/thou shalt have no other.htm

If, Then, You Really Intend to do an Act of Repentance for those ...
... He indeed, has not in his whole life stayed more than thirty days at Alexandria
where Didymus lived; yet almost all through his books he boasts, at length and ...
/.../11 if then you really.htm

Celts and Celtophiles
... All other gods, however weak and warring, at least boast of being constant. But
science boasts of being in a flux for ever; boasts of being unstable as water. ...
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As to Your Charge of Perjury, Since You Refer Me to Your Book; and ...
... What a difference there is between your dream and mine! Mine tells how I was humbled
and repressed; yours boasts over and over again how you were praised. ...
/.../32 as to your charge.htm

Whether Boasting is Opposed to the virtue of Truth?
... xxiii, 4) to be one of the four species of pride, "when," to wit, "a man boasts
of having what he has not." Hence it is written (Jer.48:29,30): "We have heard ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether boasting is opposed to.htm

You Observe How New and Terrible a Form of Oath this is which He ...
... Amongst the rest, he boasts of having read the books of Pythagoras. ... Amongst
the rest, he boasts of having read the books of Pythagoras. ...
/.../7 you observe how new.htm

"Boast not Thyself of To-Morrow, for Thou Knowest not what a Day ...
... thereof, and be glad." As humility and self-emptiness made David go out of himself,
to seek satisfaction in God, and having found it, he boasts and triumphs ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon vi boast not thyself.htm

Thesaurus

Boasts (18 Occurrences)
...Boasts (18 Occurrences). 1 Corinthians 1:31 that, according as it is written, "He
who boasts, let him boast in the Lord." (WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Boast (86 Occurrences)
... (WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV). 1 Corinthians 1:31 that, according as it is written,
"He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord." (Root in WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Kindles (6 Occurrences)
... Kindles (6 Occurrences). James 3:5 Thus also the tongue is a little member, and
boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles! (DBY). ...
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Luxury (8 Occurrences)
... woe. For in her heart she boasts, saying, 'I sit enthroned as Queen: no widow
am I: I shall never know sorrow.' (WEY NIV). Revelation ...
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Goliath (6 Occurrences)
... The story of his encounter with David is graphic, and the boasts of the two champions
were perfectly in keeping with single combats in the Orient. ...
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Greedy (24 Occurrences)
... RSV). Psalms 10:3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses
the greedy, and condemns Yahweh. (WEB NAS RSV NIV). Psalms ...
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Flattering (11 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). Psalms 12:3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering
lips, and the tongue that boasts, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Revel (6 Occurrences)
... woe. For in her heart she boasts, saying, 'I sit enthroned as Queen: no
widow am I: I shall never know sorrow.' (Root in WEY YLT). ...
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Revelled (2 Occurrences)
... woe. For in her heart she boasts, saying, 'I sit enthroned as Queen: no
widow am I: I shall never know sorrow.' (WEY). Revelation ...
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Renounces (2 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Renounces (2 Occurrences). Psalms 10:3 For the wicked
boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh. ...
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Bible Concordance

Boasts (18 Occurrences)

1 Corinthians 1:31 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
(WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 10:17 But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
(WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

James 3:5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
(WEB DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Peter 2:18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
(See RSV)

Revelation 18:7 She has freely glorified herself and revelled in luxury; equally freely administer torment to her, and woe. For in her heart she boasts, saying, 'I sit enthroned as Queen: no widow am I: I shall never know sorrow.'
(WEY NIV)

1 Samuel 2:1 Hannah prayed, and said: "My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
(See NIV)

Job 11:3 Thy boastings have made men hold their peace, and thou hast mocked, with none to make thee ashamed;
(See NAS)

Psalms 10:3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 12:3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
(WEB RSV)

Proverbs 20:14 "It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Proverbs 25:14 As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud; even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy, his ill-founded boastings.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 9:24 But -- in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I 'am' Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 48:30 I know his arrogancy, saith the LORD, that it is ill-founded; his boastings have wrought nothing well-founded.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Daniel 7:8 I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
(See NAS)

Daniel 7:20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.
(See NAS)

Hosea 12:8 Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."
(See NIV)

Zephaniah 2:8 I have heard the taunt of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have taunted My people, and spoken boastfully concerning their border.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Boasts

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Boast (86 Occurrences)

Kindles (6 Occurrences)

Luxury (8 Occurrences)

Goliath (6 Occurrences)

Greedy (24 Occurrences)

Flattering (11 Occurrences)

Revel (6 Occurrences)

Revelled (2 Occurrences)

Renounces (2 Occurrences)