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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 11 times in 11 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:27 - Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:17 - So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:31 - Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:12 - For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God - not by human wisdom but by the grace of God - we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:4 - I have great confidence in you; I take great pride on your behalf. I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in the midst of all our suffering.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:14 - For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 8:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:24 - Therefore show them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you.

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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 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 with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:19 - For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:16

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