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Strong's #2754 - κενοδοξία
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- vain glory, groundless, self esteem, empty pride
- a vain opinion, error
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κενοδοξ-ία, ἡ,
I liability to vain imagination, Epicur. Sent. 30, Phld. Rh. 1.332 S.
II vanity, conceit, Plb. 3.81.9, LXX Wi. 14.14, D.S. 17.107, Ph. 2.47, Philippians 2:3, Plu. 2.57d, Porph. Mark 15:1-47; esp. of false prudery, Gal. 6.415.
κενοδοξία, κενοδοξίας, ἡ (κενόδοξος, which see), vain-glory, groundless self-esteem, empty pride: Philippians 2:3. (4 Macc. 2:15; 8:18; Polybius, Plutarch, Lucian; (Philo de mut. nom. § 15; leg. ad Gaium § 16; etc.); ecclesiastical writings; universally, a vain opinion, error, Wis. 14:14.)
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**† κενοδοξία , -ας , ἡ
(< κενόδοξος ),
[in LXX: Wisdom of Solomon 14:14, 2 Maccabees 2:15; 2 Maccabees 8:10*;]
1. foolish fancy, vain opinion, error (LXX, ll. c.).
2. vainglory, groundless conceit: Philippians 2:3.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
To the usual late Greek citations for this word (Philippians 2:3) we may add Vett. Val. p. 358.31 ἀλλά τινες σφαλέντες καὶ θρυληθέντες ἐδυστύχησαν, ματαίαν τὴν ἐγχειρισθεῖσαν κτησάμενοι κενοδοξίαν. The Latins adopted this word.
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Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
