"to boast or glory," is always translated in the RV by the verb "to glory," where the AV uses the verb "to boast" (see, e.g., Rom 1:2,23, 2Co 7:14, 2Co 9:2, 2Co 1:10,13,15,16); it is used (a) of "vainglorying," e.g., 1Co 1:29; (b) of "valid glorying," e.g., Rom 5:2, "rejoice;" Rom 1:5,11 (RV, "rejoice"); 1Co 1:31, 2Co 9:2, 2Co 10:8, 2Co 12:9, Gal 6:14, Phi 3:3, Jam 1:9, RV, "glory" (AV, "rejoice"). See BOAST, JOY, REJOICE.
a strengthened form of No. 1 (kata, intensive), signifies "to boast against, exult over," Rom 11:18, RV, "glory" (AV, "boast"); Jam 2:13, RV, "glorieth" (AV, "rejoiceth"); Jam 3:14, "glory (not)." See BOAST, REJOICE. en, "in," and No. 1, "to glory in," is found, in the most authentic mss., in 2Th 1:4. Note: Cp. perpereuomai, "to vaunt oneself, to be perperos, vainglorious," 1Co 13:4. akin to A, No. 1, denotes "that in which one glories, a matter or ground of glorying," Rom 4:2, Phi 2:16, RV, "whereof to glory" (for Rom 3:27, see No. 2); in the following the meaning is likewise "a ground of glorying:" 1Co 5:6, 1Co 9:15, "glorying," 1Co 9:16, "to glory of;" 2Co 1:14, RV; 2Co 9:3, RV; Gal 6:4, RV (AV, "rejoicing"); Phi 1:26 (ditto); Heb 3:6 (ditto). In 2Co 5:12, 2Co 9:3 the word denotes the boast itself, yet as distinct from the act (see No. 2). denotes "the act of boasting," Rom 3:27, Rom 15:17, RV, "(my) glorying" (AV, "whereof I may glory"); 1Co 15:31, RV, "glorying;" 2Co 1:12 (ditto); 2Co 1:7,14 (AV, "boasting"); 2Co 8:24, 2Co 1:11,17 (ditto); 1Th 2:19 (AV, "rejoicing"); Jam 4:16 (ditto). The distinction between this and No. 1 is to be observed in 2Co 8:24, speaking of the Apostle's act of "glorying" in the liberality of the Corinthians, while in 2Co 9:3 he exhorts them not to rob him of the ground of his "glorying" (No. 1). Some take the word in 2Co 1:12 (see above) as identical with No. 1, a boast, but there seems to be no reason for regarding it as different from its usual sense, No. 2. Note: Cp. alazoneia (or -ia), "vainglory, ostentatious (or arrogant) display," Jam 4:16, 1Jo 2:16, and alazon, "a boaster," Rom 1:30, 2Ti 3:2.
