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(
+
, 1741) signifies (a) “held in honor” ( , “in,”
@
, “honor”), “of
high repute,” 1 Cor. 4:10,
RV
“have glory” (
KJV
, “are honorable”); (b) “splendid,
glorious,” said of apparel, Luke 7:25, “gorgeously”; of the works of Christ, 13:17; of the
church, Eph. 5:27. See
GORGEOUSLY
,
HONORABLE
.¶
GLORY (to boast), GLORYING
A. Verbs.
1.
$
(
1
, 2744), “to boast or glory,” is always translated in the
RV
by the verb “to glory,” where the
KJV
uses the verb “to boast” (see, e.g., Rom. 2:17, 23; 2
Cor. 7:14; 9:2; 10:8, 13, 15, 16); it is used (a) of “vainglorying,” e.g., 1 Cor. 1:29; 3:21;
4:7; 2 Cor. 5:12; 11:12, 18; Eph. 2:9; (b) of “valid glorying,” e.g., Rom. 5:2, “rejoice”;
5:3, 11 (
RV
, “rejoice”); 1 Cor. 1:31; 2 Cor. 9:2; 10:8, 12:9; Gal. 6:14; Phil. 3:3 and Jas.
1:9,
RV
, “glory” (
KJV
, “rejoice”). See
BOAST
,
JOY
,
REJOICE
.
2.
$
(
1
, 2620), a strengthened form of No. 1 (
,
intensive), signifies “to boast against, exult over,” Rom. 11:18,
RV
, “glory” (
KJV
,
“boast”); Jas. 2:13,
RV
, “glorieth” (
KJV
, “rejoiceth”); 3:14, “glory (not).” See
BOAST
,
REJOICE
.¶
3.
$
, , “in,” and No. 1, “to glory in,” is found, in the most authentic
mss., in 2 Thess. 1:4.¶
Note:
Cf.
$
, “to vaunt oneself, to be
, vainglorious,” 1 Cor.
13:4.¶
B. Nouns.
1.
$
(
"
, 2745), akin to A, No. 1, denotes “that in which one glories, a
matter or ground of glorying,” Rom. 4:2 and Phil. 2:16,
RV
, “whereof to glory” (for Rom.
3:27, see No. 2); in the following the meaning is likewise “a ground of glorying”: 1 Cor.
5:6; 9:15, “glorying,” 16, “to glory of”; 2 Cor. 1:14
RV
; 9:3,
RV
; Gal. 6:4,
RV
(
KJV
,
“rejoicing”); Phil. 1:26 (ditto); Heb. 3:6 (ditto). In 2 Cor. 5:12 and 9:3 the word denotes
the boast itself, yet as distinct from the act (see No. 2).¶
2.
$
(
"
, 2746) denotes “the act of boasting,” Rom. 3:27; 15:17,
RV
,
“(my) glorying” (
KJV
, “whereof I may glory”); 1 Cor. 15:31,
RV
, “glorying”; 2 Cor. 1:12
(ditto); 7:4, 14 (
KJV
, “boasting”); 8:24; 11:10, and 17 (ditto); 1 Thess. 2:19 (
KJV
,
“rejoicing”); Jas. 4:16 (ditto). The distinction between this and No. 1 is to be observed in
2 Cor. 8:24, speaking of the apostle’s act of “glorying” in the liberality of the
Corinthians, while in 9:3 he exhorts them not to rob him of the ground of his “glorying”
(No. 1). Some take the word in 2 Cor. 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:
Cf.
(or
/
), “vainglory, ostentatious (or arrogant) display,” Jas. 4:16
and 1 John 2:16,¶ and
, “a boaster,” Rom. 1:30 and 2 Tim. 3:2.¶
GLUTTON
(
)$
, 1064) denotes “a belly”; it is used in Titus 1:12, with the adjective
, “idle,” metaphorically, to signify a glutton,
RV
, “(idle) gluttons” [
KJV
“(slow)
bellies”]; elsewhere, Luke 1:31. See
WOMB
.¶