Definition

to vaunt (in a good or a bad sense)

Etymology

from some (obsolete) base akin to that of (to boast) and G2172 (εὔχομαι);

Where the KJV renders it

• (make) boast
• glory
• joy
• rejoice

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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