Boastest
Bible Usage:
- boast used 20 times.
- boasted used twice.
- boasters used twice.
- boastest used once.
- boasteth used 4 times.
- boasting used 9 times.
- boastings used once.
- Bible Reference: Psalms 52:1
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: No
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: No
BOAST, verb intransitive [Gr. to inflate; Latin fastus.]
1. To brag, or vaunt one's self; to make an ostentatious display, in speech, of one's own worth, property, or actions.
2. To glory; to speak with laudable pride and ostentation of meritorious persons or things.
I boast of you to them of Macedonia. St. Paul. 2. Cor.9.
Usually, it is followed by of; sometimes by in.
3. To exalt one's self.
With your mouth you have boasted against me. Ezek.
BOAST, verb transitive To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity or exultation, with a view to self-commendation.
Lest men should boast their specious deeds.
1. Magnify or exalt.
They boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. Psalms 49:6.
2. To exult in confident expectation.
BOAST not thyself of tomorrow. Proverbs 27:1.
BOAST, noun Expression of ostentation, pride or vanity; a vaunting.
Thou makest thy boast of the law. Romans 2:17
1. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride, vanity, or laudable exultation.
Trial by peers is the boast of the British nation.
BOASTER, noun One who boasts, glories or vaunts ostentatiously.
BOASTFUL,adjective Given to boasting; ostentatious of personal worth or actions.
General references
Proverbs 20:14; Proverbs 25:14; Proverbs 27:1; Isaiah 10:15; Jeremiah 9:23; Romans 1:30; James 3:5; James 4:16
Of evil
Psalms 52:1
Instances of:
Goliath
Psalms 9:17
Ben-Hadad
1 Kings 20:10
Sennacherib
2 Kings 18:19; Isaiah 10:8-15
The disciples
Luke 10:17; Luke 10:20
Spiritual
Psalms 49:6-9; Psalms 52:1; Psalms 94:4; Romans 3:1-31; Romans 11:17-21; 1 Corinthians 1:17-31; 1 Corinthians 4:6-7; 2 Corinthians 10:12-17; Ephesians 2:8-10
BOASTING, participle present tense Talking ostentatiously; glorying; vaunting.
BOASTING, noun Ostentatious display of personal worth, or actions; a glorying or vaunting.
Where is boasting then? Romans 3:27.
BOASTINGLY, adverb In an ostentatious manner; with boasting.
BOASTIVE, adjective Presumptuous. [Unusual.]
BOASTLESS, adjective Without ostentation.