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BOASTING IN GOD Psa 34:2; Psa 44:8; Isa 45:25; Jer 9:24; Rom 2:17; 1Co 1:31; 2Co 10:17 Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

Boastful alazon (G213) Boastful hyperephanos (G5244) Proud hybristes (G5197) Insolent, Violent All of these words occur in Rom 1:30, though in the reverse order from the way I have listed them. They constitute an interesting subject for synonymous discrimination. Alazon occurs twice in the Septuagint (Job 28:8; Hab 2:5) and twice in the New Testament … Continue reading “Boastful”

Boast, Boaster, Boastful and its related words katakauchaomai, “to glory or boast” and the nouns kauchesis and kauchema, translated “boast,” and “boasting,” in the AV, are always translated “glory,” and “glorying” in the RV, e.g., 2Co 10:15; 2Co 11:10, 2Co 11:17; Eph 2:9. See GLORY. from megala, “great things,” and aucheo, “to lift up the … Continue reading “Boast, Boaster, Boastful”

Boast To boast or block out a piece of stone or wood is to shape it into the simple form which approaches nearest to its ultimate figure, leaving the smaller details to be worked out afterwards. Sometimes capitals, corbels, etc., especially of the 13th century, are found in this state, never having been finished. A … Continue reading “Boast”

Boardman, William a Presbyterian minister, was born at Williamstown, Mass., in 1782. He graduated at Williams College in 1799; was licensed to preach. in 1803; was settled in the ministry successively at Duanesburg and Sandy Hill, N. Y.; and was installed pastor of the Church at Newtown, L. I., October, 1811, where he died, March, … Continue reading “Boardman, William”

Boards, Sacred were small pieces of board struck together, for the purpose of assembling the people to worship, before the invention of bells. To the present day, the Catholics use such boards in Passion-week and Lent, because the noise of bells they consider to be unsuitable to the solemnity of the season. On the first … Continue reading “Boards, Sacred”

Boardman, Sylvanus a Baptist minister, was born at Chilmark, Mass., Sept. 15, 1757. He was licensed to preach in 1795; was ordained pastor of the Church in Livermore, Me., Feb. 2, 1802, and continued in that relation till 1810, when he took charge of a Church in North Yarmouth, where he remained six years. Subsequently … Continue reading “Boardman, Sylvanus”

Boardman, Richard one of the first Methodist ministers in America, was born in England in 1738, and became a Wesleyan preacher in 1763. In 1769, in answer to a call from Mr. Wesley, he volunteered as missionary for America. After several years’ faithful service, he returned to England in 1774, and continued his itinerant labors … Continue reading “Boardman, Richard (2)”

Boardman, Henry Augustus, D.D. a Presbyterian minister, was born at Troy, N. Y., Jan. 9, 1808. He received his preparatory education at the academies of Kinderhook and Troy, and graduated at Yale College in 1829, being the class valedictorian. On. leaving college he engaged in the study of law, but having been converted and become … Continue reading “Boardman, Henry Augustus, D.D.”

Boardman, George Smith D.D. a Presbyterian minister, was born at Albany, N. Y., Dec. 28, 1796. He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, in 1816, entered Princeton Seminary in the same year, and graduated in 1819. After receiving license to preach, he spent about two years in travelling on horseback and preaching from place to. place … Continue reading “Boardman, George Smith D.D.”