vān-glō´ri (κενοδοξία, kenodoxı́a): “Vainglory” is the translation of kenodoxia, “empty glory” or “pride,” nearly akin to vanity in the modern sense ([Php 2:3]). Kenódoxos is “vainglorious” ([Gal 5:26], “Let us not be desirous of vainglory,” the Revised Version (British and American) “Let us not become vainglorious”). In [1Jn 2:16] the Revised Version (British and American) has “the vainglory of life” (alazoneı́a toú bı́ou) for “the pride of life”; compare [Jas 4:16], “Ye glory in your vauntings” (alazoneia). Kenodoxia is translated “vainglory” (The Wisdom of Solomon 14:14, “For by the vain glory of men they (idols) entered into the world,” the Revised Version (British and American) “vaingloriousless”); alazoneia occurs in The Wisdom of Solomon 5:8, translated “vaunting.” “Pride is applicable to every object, good or bad, high or low, small or great; vanity is applicable only to small objects; pride is therefore good or bad; vanity is always bad; it is always emptiness or nothingness” (Crabb, English Synonymes).
