Bold
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Proverbs 28:1
- Last Reference: Philemon 1:8
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H982 Used 1 time
- G2292 Used 2 times
- G3954 Used 1 time
- G3955 Used 2 times
- G5111 Used 2 times
- G662 Used 1 time
BOLD, adjective
1. Daring; courageous; brave; intrepid; fearless; applied to men or other animals; as, bold as a lion.
2. Requiring courage in the execution; executed with spirit or boldness; planned with courage and spirit; as a bold enterprise.
3. Confident; not timorous.
We were bold in our God to speak to you. 1 Thessalonians 2:2.
4. In an ill sense, rude, forward, impudent.
5. Licentious; showing great liberty of fiction or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold
6. Standing out to view; striking to the eye; as bold figures in painting, sculpture and architecture.
7. Steep; abrupt; prominent; as a bold shore, which enters the water almost perpendicularly, so that ships can approach near to land without danger.
Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears.
To make bold to take freedoms; a common, but not a correct phrase. To be bold is better.
BOLD, verb transitive To make daring. [Not used.]
BOLDEN, verb transitive To make bold; to give confidence. This is nearly disused; being superseded by embolden.
BOLD-FACE, noun [bold and face.] Impudence; sauciness; a term of reprehension, and reproach.
BOLD-FACED, adjective Impudent.
BOLDLY, adverb In a bold matter; courageously; intrepidly; without timidity or fear; with confidence. Sometimes, perhaps, in a bad sense, for impudently.
Of the righteous
Proverbs 14:26; Proverbs 28:1; Ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 4:16; Hebrews 10:19; Hebrews 13:6; 1 John 2:28; 1 John 4:17
Instances of, in prayer:
Abraham
Genesis 18:23-32
BOLDNESS, noun Courage; bravery; intrepidity; spirit; fearlessness. I cannot, with Johnson, interpret this word by fortitude or magnanimity. boldness does not, I think, imply the firmness of mind, which constitutes fortitude, nor the elevation and generosity of magnanimity.
1. Prominence; the quality of exceeding the ordinary rules of scrupulous nicety and caution; applied to style, expression, and metaphors in language; and to figures in painting, sculpture and architecture.
2. Freedom from timidity; liberty.
Great is my boldness of speech towards you. 2 Corinthians 7:4.
3. Confidence; confident trust.
We have boldness and access with confidence. Ephesians 3:12.
4. Freedom from bashfulness; assurance; confident mien.
5. Prominence; steepness; as the boldness of the shore.
6. Excess of freedom, bordering on impudence.
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Proverbs 28:1
- Last Reference: Philemon 1:8
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H982 Used 1 time
- G2292 Used 2 times
- G3954 Used 1 time
- G3955 Used 2 times
- G5111 Used 2 times
- G662 Used 1 time