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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 BoxRom 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:27 - What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:17 - So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:31 - Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:12 - For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:4 - My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:14 - For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:24 - Make clear then to them, as representatives of the churches, the quality of your love, and that the things which we have said about you are true.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:10 - As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:17 - What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:19 - For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:16 - But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.
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