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Vainglory, Vainglorious
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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from kenos, "vain, empty," doxa, "glory," is used in Philippians 2:3 .
denotes "boastfulness, vaunting," translated "vainglory" in 1 John 2:16 , RV (AV, "pride"); in James 4:16 , RV, "vauntings" (AV, "boastings"). Cp. alazon, "a boaster."
akin to A, No. 1, is rendered "vainglorious" in Galatians 5:26 , RV (AV, "desirous of vain glory").
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Vainglory, Vainglorious'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/v/vainglory-vainglorious.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Vainglory, Vainglorious'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/v/vainglory-vainglorious.html. 1940.
