23 occurrences in 9 translations

'Boasts' in the Bible

“Shall your boasts silence men?And shall you scoff and none rebuke?

The LORD will cut off all slippery lips, and the tongue that boasts great things,

The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold [to separate the impurities of the metal],And each is tested by the praise given to him [and his response to it, whether humble or proud].

We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride;Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury;His idle boasts are false.

But the one who boasts should boast in this,that he understands and knows Me—that I am Yahweh, showing faithful love,justice, and righteousness on the earth,for I delight in these things.This is the Lord’s declaration.

Egypt rises like the Nile,and its waters churn like rivers.He boasts, “I will go up, I will cover the earth;I will destroy cities with their residents.”

“I know his fury,” declares the Lord,“But it is futile;His idle boasts have accomplished nothing.

(Tet) Her menstrual flow has soiled her clothing; she did not consider the consequences of her sin. Her demise was astonishing, and there was no one to comfort her. She cried, "Look, O Lord, on my affliction because my enemy boasts!"

While I was contemplating the horns, behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth uttering great boasts.

and the meaning of the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up, and before which three of them fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth uttering great boasts and which was larger in appearance than its associates.

“I have heard the taunting of MoabAnd the revilings of the sons of Ammon,With which they have taunted My peopleAnd become arrogant against their territory [by violating Israel’s boundary and trying to seize its land].

For uttering arrogant words of vanity [pompous words disguised to sound scholarly or profound, but meaning nothing and containing no spiritual truth], they beguile and lure using lustful desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error.

A mouth was given to him to speak boasts and blasphemies. He was also given authority to act for 42 months.

To the degree that she glorified herself and reveled and gloated in her sensuality [living deliciously and luxuriously], to that same degree impose on her torment and anguish, and mourning and grief; for in her heart she boasts, ‘I sit as a queen [on a throne] and I am not a widow, and will never, ever see mourning or experience grief.’

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
κατακαυχάομαι 
Katakauchaomai 
Usage: 4

καυχάομαι 
Kauchaomai 
Usage: 37

הלל 
Halal 
Usage: 165

ימר 
Yamar 
Usage: 1

פּאר 
Pa'ar 
Usage: 14

ἀλαζονεία 
Alazoneia 
Usage: 2

ἀλαζών 
Alazon 
Usage: 2

καύχημα 
Kauchema 
Usage: 11

καύχησις 
Kauchesis 
Usage: 12

μεγαλαυχέω 
megalaucheo 
Usage: 1

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