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κενόδοξος

kenódoxos · G2755 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. falsely proud

    Pertaining to being proud without basis or justification

    Examples

    Galatians 5:26 Let’s not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Falsely proud88.222
κενόδοξος describes a person marked by hollow, unfounded pride. Galatians 5:26 warns, “Let’s not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another,” naming this vain self-importance as the root of the rivalry and envy that follow.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κενός kenós · G2756 · without anything, empty, empty-handed · 18×κενόω kenóō · G2758 · to cause to lose power, to cause to be emptied of power, to make powerless · 5×κενοφωνία kenophōnía · G2757 · foolish talk, empty talk · 2×κενοδοξία kenodoxía · G2754 · empty pride, cheap pride, vain pride · 1×κενόδοξοςkenódoxos · G2755κενῶς kenōs · G2761 · in vain, for no purpose · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κενοδοξον (κενός, δόξα), glorying without reason, conceited, vain-glorious, eager for…
κενοδοξον (κενός, δόξα), glorying without reason, conceited, vain-glorious, eager for empty glory: Gal 5:26. (Polybius, Diodorus; Antoninus 5, 1; (cf. Philo de trib. virt. § 2 at the end); ecclesiastical writings.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Arrogance, Haughtiness, Pride1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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