1 Kings 20:11
And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
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Boast
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Ephesians 2:9
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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5 occurrences in 5 verses.
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καυχάομαι
kaucháomai · kow-khah'-om-ahee
7 times translated as this KJV form43 total Strong's occurrences
to vaunt (in a good or a bad sense)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(make) boast, glory, joy, rejoice.
Strong's first: Romans 2:17Strong's last: Ephesians 2:9
Open full G2744 profile →הָלַל
hâlal · haw-lal'
6 times translated as this KJV form165 total Strong's occurrences
to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify
Strong's KJV usage: (make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool(-ish, -ly), glory, give (light), be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, (sing, be worthy of) praise, rage, renowned, shine.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 20:11Strong's last: Proverbs 27:1
Open full H1984 profile →κατακαυχάομαι
katakaucháomai · kat-ak-ow-khah'-om-ahee
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to exult against (i.e. over)
Strong's KJV usage: :--boast (against), glory, rejoice against.
Strong's first: Romans 11:18Strong's last: Romans 11:18
Open full G2620 profile →אָמַר
ʼâmar · aw-mar'
1 times translated as this KJV form5,305 total Strong's occurrences
to say (used with great latitude)
Strong's KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, × desire, determine, × expressly, × indeed, × intend, name, × plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), × still, × suppose, talk, tell, term, × that is, × think, use (speech), utter, × verily, × yet.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 94:4Strong's last: Psalms 94:4
Open full H559 profile →יָמַר
yâmar · yaw-mar'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to exchange; by implication, to change places
Strong's KJV usage: boast selves, change.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 61:6Strong's last: Isaiah 61:6
Open full H3235 profile →כָּבַד
kâbad · kaw-bad'
1 times translated as this KJV form121 total Strong's occurrences
to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)
Strong's KJV usage: abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, × be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, × more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.
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Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 25:19Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 25:19
Open full H3513 profile →פָּאַר
pâʼar · paw-ar'
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
to gleam, i.e. (causatively) embellish; figuratively, to boast; also to explain (i.e. make clear) oneself; to shake a tree
Strong's KJV usage: beautify, boast self, go over the boughs, glorify (self), glory, vaunt self.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 10:15Strong's last: Isaiah 10:15
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H3513
Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
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boast
BOAST, verb intransitive [Gr. to inflate; Latin fastus.]
1. To brag, or vaunt one's self; to make an ostentatious display, in speech, of one's own worth, property, or actions.
2. To glory; to speak with laudable pride and ostentation of meritorious persons or things.
I boast of you to them of Macedonia. St. Paul. 2. Cor.9.
Usually, it is followed by of; sometimes by in.
3. To exalt one's self.
With your mouth you have boasted against me. Ezek.
BOAST, verb transitive To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity or exultation, with a view to self-commendation.
Lest men should boast their specious deeds.
1. Magnify or exalt.
They boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. Psalms 49:6.
2. To exult in confident expectation.
BOAST not thyself of tomorrow. Proverbs 27:1.
BOAST, noun Expression of ostentation, pride or vanity; a vaunting.
Thou makest thy boast of the law. Romans 2:17
1. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride, vanity, or laudable exultation.
Trial by peers is the boast of the British nation.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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