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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, ἡ (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 12 times in 12 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:27 -

Where then is boasting G2746? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:17 - Therefore in Christ Jesus I have reason G2746 for G2746 boasting G2746 in things pertaining to God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:31 - I affirm, brothers, by the boasting G2746 in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:12

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For our boasting G2746 is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in [fn]holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:4 - Great is my boldness toward you; great is my boasting G2746 on your behalf. I have been filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:14 - For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame, but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting G2746 before Titus proved to be the truth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 8:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:24 - Therefore [fn]openly before the churches, [fn]show them the proof of your love and of our reason G2746 for G2746 boasting G2746 about you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:4 - lest if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—be put to shame in this certainty of ours.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:10 - As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting G2746 of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:17 - What I am saying, I am not saying [fn]according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting G2746.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:19 - For who is our hope or joy or crown of boasting G2746? Is it not even you, before our Lord Jesus at His [fn]coming?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:16 - But as it is, you boast in your [fn]arrogance. All such boasting G2746 is evil.
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