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Boas [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Boast [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Expression of ostentation, pride or vanity; a vaunting.

2. Thou makest thy boast of the law. Romans 2:17

3. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride, vanity, or laudable exultation.

4. Trial by peers is the boast of the British nation.

Boast [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

3. I boast of you to them of Macedonia. St. Paul. 2. Cor.9.

4. Usually, it is followed by of; sometimes by in.

5. To exalt one's self.

6. With your mouth you have boasted against me. Ezek.

Boast [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity or exultation, with a view to self-commendation.

2. Lest men should boast their specious deeds.

3. Magnify or exalt.

4. They boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. Psalms 49:6 .

5. To exult in confident expectation.

6. BOAST not thyself of tomorrow. Proverbs 27:1 .

Boast [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.

2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.

Boast [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.

2. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

Boast [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

2. To display vaingloriously.

3. To possess or have; as, to boast a name.

4. To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.

5. To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Boastance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Boasting.

Boasted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Boaster [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who boasts, glories or vaunts ostentatiously.

Boaster [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who boasts; a braggart.

2. A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.

Boastful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Given to boasting; ostentatious of personal worth or actions.

Boastful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.

Boasting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Ostentatious display of personal worth, or actions; a glorying or vaunting.

2. Where is boasting then? Romans 3:27 .

Boasting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Talking ostentatiously; glorying; vaunting.

Boasting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.

Boasting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Boastingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In an ostentatious manner; with boasting.

Boastingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Boastfully; with boasting.

Boastive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Presumptuous. [Unusual.]

Boastive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Presumptuous.

Boastless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Without ostentation.

Boastless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Without boasting or ostentation.

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Deuteronomy 33:29

Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”

1 Samuel 2:3

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.

1 Kings 20:11

And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”

2 Chronicles 25:19

Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

You have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has become proud and boastful. Now stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”

Psalms 5:5

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.

Psalms 10:3

For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

Psalms 12:3

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

Psalms 34:2

My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

My soul boasts in the LORD; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.

Psalms 44:8

In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah

Psalms 49:6

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.

Psalms 52:1

Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

Psalms 75:4

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.

Psalms 94:4

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.

Psalms 97:7

Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

All worshipers of images are put to shame— those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!

Proverbs 20:14

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

“Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.

Proverbs 25:14

Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.

Proverbs 27:1

Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.

Isaiah 20:5

And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.