Words the Bible translates as boasting
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- kauchēmaκαύχημαa boast: what a person can point to as a reason for pride, and the pride voiced in it
- kauchēsisκαύχησιςboasting: the act of saying out loud what you are proud of and counting on, whether that is yourself or God
- alazoneiaἀλαζονείαempty, self-inflating boasting: a pretentious confidence whose claim to control or security outruns what is really true
- badבַּדbig empty talk: boasting or babble with nothing behind it, and in the plural the boasters and fortune tellers who trade in it
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