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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 the boasting? it was excluded; by what 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 - I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:31 - Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:12 - For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:4 - great is my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:14 - because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 8:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:24 - the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:4 - lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:10 - The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:17 - That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:19 - for what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:16 - and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
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