Vainglory, Vainglorious
Vainglory, Vainglorious
from kenos, “vain, empty,” doxa, “glory,” is used in Phi 2:3.
denotes “boastfulness, vaunting,” translated “vainglory” in 1Jo 2:16, RV (AV, “pride”); in Jam 4:16, RV, “vauntings” (AV, “boastings”). Cp. alazon, “a boaster.”
akin to A, No. 1, is rendered “vainglorious” in Gal 5:26, RV (AV, “desirous of vain glory”).