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Glory, Glorying

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

"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., Romans 2:17,23; 2 Corinthians 7:14; 9:2; 10:8,13,15,16 ); it is used (a) of "vainglorying," e.g., 1 Corinthians 1:29; (b) of "valid glorying," e.g., Romans 5:2 , "rejoice;" Romans 5:3,11 (RV, "rejoice"); 1 Corinthians 1:31; 2 Corinthians 9:2; 10:8; 12:9; Galatians 6:14; Philippians 3:3; James 1:9 , RV, "glory" (AV, "rejoice"). See BOAST , JOY , REJOICE.

a strengthened form of No. 1 (kata, intensive), signifies "to boast against, exult over," Romans 11:18 , RV, "glory" (AV, "boast"); James 2:13 , RV, "glorieth" (AV, "rejoiceth"); James 3:14 , "glory (not)." See BOAST , REJOICE.

en, "in," and No. 1, "to glory in," is found, in the most authentic mss., in 2 Thessalonians 1:4 .

Note: Cp. perpereuomai, "to vaunt oneself, to be perperos, vainglorious," 1 Corinthians 13:4 .

akin to A, No. 1, denotes "that in which one glories, a matter or ground of glorying," Romans 4:2; Philippians 2:16 , RV, "whereof to glory" (for Romans 3:27 , see No. 2); in the following the meaning is likewise "a ground of glorying:" 1 Corinthians 5:6; 9:15 , "glorying," 1 Corinthians 9:16 , "to glory of;" 2 Corinthians 1:14 , RV; 2 Corinthians 9:3 , RV; Galatians 6:4 , RV (AV, "rejoicing"); Philippians 1:26 (ditto); Hebrews 3:6 (ditto). In 2 Corinthians 5:12; 9:3 the word denotes the boast itself, yet as distinct from the act (see No. 2).

denotes "the act of boasting," Romans 3:27; 15:17 , RV, "(my) glorying" (AV, "whereof I may glory"); 1 Corinthians 15:31 , RV, "glorying;" 2 Corinthians 1:12 (ditto); 7:4,14 (AV, "boasting"); 8:24; 11:10,17 (ditto); 1 Thessalonians 2:19 (AV, "rejoicing"); James 4:16 (ditto). The distinction between this and No. 1 is to be observed in 2 Corinthians 8:24 , speaking of the Apostle's act of "glorying" in the liberality of the Corinthians, while in 2 Corinthians 9:3 he exhorts them not to rob him of the ground of his "glorying" (No. 1). Some take the word in 2 Corinthians 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," James 4:16; 1 John 2:16 , and alazon, "a boaster," Romans 1:30; 2 Timothy 3:2 .