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BOARD
(
&
, 4548) denotes “a plank, or board,” Acts 27:44.¶
BOAST, BOASTER, BOASTFUL
A. Verbs.
1.
$
(
1
, 2744), and its related words
$
, “to glory
or boast” and the nouns
$
and
$
, translated “boast,” and “boasting,” in
the
KJV
, are always translated “glory,” and “glorying” in the
RV
, e.g., 2 Cor. 10:15; 11:10,
17; Eph. 2:9. See
GLORY
.
2.
$
(
!
, 3166), from
, “great things,” and
$
, “to
lift up the neck,” hence, “to boast,” is found in some texts of Jas. 3:5. The most authentic
mss. have the two words separated. It indicates any kind of haughty speech which stirs up
strife or provokes others.¶
Note:
In Acts 5:36, the verb
, “to say,” is rendered “boasting” in the
KJV
; “giving
out” (
RV
).
B. Nouns.
1.
(
0
, 213), “a boaster,” Rom. 1:30 and 2 Tim. 3:2,
KJV
, “boasters,”
RV
,
“boastful,” primarily signifies “a wanderer about the country” (from , “wandering”),
“a vagabond”, hence, “an impostor.”¶
2.
(
&
, 212), the practice of an
, denotes quackery; hence,
“arrogant display, or boastings,” Jas. 4:16,
RV
, “vauntings”; in 1 John 2:16,
RV
,
“vainglory”;
KJV
, “pride.” See
PRIDE
,
VAUNT
.¶
Note:
In 2 Cor. 9:4,
$
, “a support, substance,” means “confidence” (
RV
);
KJV
, “confident boasting.”
BOAT
1.
(
1$
, 4142), “a skiff or small boat,” is a diminutive of
(No.
2), Mark 3:9; 4:36; John 6:22 (but No. 2 in the 2nd part of the verse), 23 (here some texts
have No. 2), 24; 21:8.¶
2.
(
, 4143),
KJV
, “ship,” is preferably translated “boat” (
RV
) in the
gospels, where it is of frequent use; it is found 18 times in Acts, where, as in Jas. 3:4;
Rev. 8:9; 18:19, it signifies a ship. See
SHIP
.
3.
(
1
, 4627) is, lit., “anything dug or scooped out” (from
, “to
dig”), “as a trough, a tub, and hence a light boat, or skiff, a boat belonging to a larger
vessel,” Acts 27:16, 30, 32.¶
BODY, BODILY
A. Nouns.
1.
(
, 4983) is “the body as a whole, the instrument of life,” whether of
man living, e.g., Matt. 6:22, or dead, Matt. 27:52; or in resurrection, 1 Cor. 15:44; or of
beasts, Heb. 13:11; of grain, 1 Cor. 15:37-38; of the heavenly hosts, 1 Cor. 15:40. In Rev.
18:13 it is translated “slaves.” In its figurative uses the essential idea is preserved.