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Lexicon :: Strong's G2746 - kauchēsis

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καύχησις
Transliteration
kauchēsis (Key)
Pronunciation
kow'-khay-sis
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:645,423

Strong’s Definitions

καύχησις kaúchēsis, kow'-khay-sis; from G2744; boasting (properly, the act; by implication, the object), in a good or a bad sense:—boasting, whereof I may glory, glorying, rejoicing.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G2746 in the following manner: boasting (6x), rejoicing (4x), glorying (1x), whereof I may glory (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G2746 in the following manner: boasting (6x), rejoicing (4x), glorying (1x), whereof I may glory (1x).
  1. the act of glorying

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καύχησις kaúchēsis, kow'-khay-sis; from G2744; boasting (properly, the act; by implication, the object), in a good or a bad sense:—boasting, whereof I may glory, glorying, rejoicing.
STRONGS G2746:
καύχησις, καυχήσεως, (καυχάομαι), the act of glorying: Romans 3:27; 2 Corinthians 9:4 Rec.; 2 Corinthians 11:10, 17; James 4:16; στέφανος καυχήσεως, crown of which we can boast, 1 Thessalonians 2:19; Ezekiel 16:12; Proverbs 16:31; ὑπέρ τίνος (on behalf) of one (cf. καυχάομαι, under the end), 2 Corinthians 7:4; 2 Corinthians 8:24; ἐπί τίνος, before one, 2 Corinthians 7:14; ἔχω (τήν critical editions) καύχησιν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, the glorying which I have I ascribe to Christ, or I owe it to Christ that I am permitted to glow (see ἐν, I. 6 b., p. 211b), Romans 15:17; 1 Corinthians 15:31; that of which one glories, cause of glorying, 2 Corinthians 1:12. (The Sept. several times for תִּפְאֶרֶת; ((Diogenes Laërtius 10, 7 at the end); Philod. in Vol. Hercul. Oxfort. i., p. 16.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Proverbs
16:31
Ezekiel
16:12
Romans
3:27; 15:17
1 Corinthians
15:31
2 Corinthians
1:12; 7:4; 7:14; 8:24; 9:4; 11:10; 11:17
1 Thessalonians
2:19
James
4:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2746 matches the Greek καύχησις (kauchēsis),
which occurs 11 times in 11 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:27 - Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On the principle of works? No, but on the principle of faith.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:17 - In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:31 - I protest, brethren, by my pride in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:12 - For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:4 - I have great confidence in you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. With all our affliction, I am overjoyed.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:14 - For if I have expressed to him some pride in you, I was not put to shame; but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting before Titus has proved true.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:24 - So give proof, before the churches, of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:10 - As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast of mine shall not be silenced in the regions of Acha'ia.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:17 - (What I am saying I say not with the Lord's authority but as a fool, in this boastful confidence;
Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:19 - For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:16 - As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
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