Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v. i.) To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do.
2. (v. t.) To boast of.
3. (n.) A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.
4. (n.) The thing which is boasted of.
5. (n.) A game at cards similar to bluff.
6. (v. i.) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
7. (adv.) Proudly; boastfully.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
BRAG(megalaucheo, "proud brags"): Occurs only in the Apocrypha (2 Maccabees 15:32), not being sufficiently dignified to be given a place in the canonical Scriptures by the King James translators (compare Judith 16:5).
Greek
4068. perpereuomai -- to boast ... Cor 13:4). Word Origin from perperos (vainglorious) Definition to boast
NASB Word Usage
brag (1).
brag. Middle voice from perperos
... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4068.htm - 6kStrong's Hebrew
907. bad -- empty, idle talk... priests (1). liar, lie. From bada'; a
brag or lie; also a liar -- liar, lie.
see HEBREW bada'. 906, 907. bad. 908 . Strong's Numbers.
/hebrew/907.htm - 6kLibrary
Nuremberg Sept. 15, 1530. To the Honorable and Worthy N. , My ...
... Rather we will become their judge and master. We, too, are going to be
proud and brag with these blockheads; and just as St. Paul ...
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Significant Phrases
... bone and sinew. boundless and unlimited. bourgeois and snobbish. brag and chatter.
bravado and cowardice. brave and chivalrous. breathless and reverential. ...
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The Creation
... Our beginning was of nothing. Some brag of their birth and ancestry; but
how little cause have they to boast who came from nothing. ...
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To-Morrow
... Let a man brag as he will, he is none the greater for his bragging; nay,
he is the less for men invariably think the worse of him. ...
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To-Morrow
... Let a man brag as he will, he is none the greater for his bragging; nay,
he is the less, for men invariably think the worse of him. ...
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Sun and Wind
... head.". Usually it is the weak people who bluster like the northwind, and
storm and brag. Strong people are usually quiet. There ...
/.../chidley/fifty-two story talks to boys and girls/sun and wind.htm
Empedocles Increased the Absurdity of Pythagoras by Developing the ...
... hero, declares in so many words: "I once was Thamnus, and a fish." Why not rather
a melon, seeing that he was such a fool; or a cameleon, for his inflated brag ...
/.../a treatise on the soul/chapter xxxii empedocles increased the absurdity.htm
Walamir and St. Telemachus
... stands! Tell them at Constantinople that, in spite of the brag of Stilico's
bard, Claudian, we were not beaten at Pollentia. The ...
/.../chapter lix walamir and st.htm
How Pompey when the Citizens of Jerusalem Shut their Gates against ...
... And that this is not a mere brag, or an encomium to manifest a degree of our piety
that was false, but is the real truth, I appeal to those that have written ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 4 how pompey when.htm
To the Philadelphians
... 3I thank my God that in my relations with you I have nothing to be ashamed of. No
one can brag secretly or openly that I was the slightest burden to anyone. ...
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Thesaurus
Brag (6 Occurrences)... to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk
boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to
brag of one's
...BRAG.
.../b/brag.htm - 8kVaunt (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To boast; to make a vain display of one's own
worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. ...
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Braided (10 Occurrences)
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Boast (86 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to
give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self ...
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Vapor (6 Occurrences)
... be exhaled; to evaporate. 8. (n.) To emit vapor or fumes. 9. (n.) To talk
idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag. 10. (vt) To send off ...
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Leavened (16 Occurrences)
... Amos 4:5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim
free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children ...
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Flourish (26 Occurrences)
... 6. (vi) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of
ornament or prelude. 7. (vi) To boast; to vaunt; to brag. ...
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Patient (34 Occurrences)
... NIV). 1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy.
Love doesn't brag, is not proud, (WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV). 1 ...
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Proud (96 Occurrences)
... God. (See RSV). 1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't
envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, (WEB NIV). 2 Corinthians ...
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Babbler (4 Occurrences)
... British and American) CHARMER; lapistes, the King James Version of Ecclesiasticus
20:7; the Revised Version (British and American) BRAG; spermologos; the King ...
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Resources
What does it mean that love does not boast (1 Corinthians 13:4)? | GotQuestions.orgWhat does it mean to “count the cost” (Luke 14:28)? | GotQuestions.orgWhat does it mean that God is love? | GotQuestions.orgBrag: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.comBible Concordance •
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