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καύχησις G2746
G2746 is the Greek word καύχησις, transliterated kaúchēsis. The King James Version most often renders it boasting.
What it means
boasting (properly, the act; by implication, the object), in a good or a bad sense.
Where it comes from
from G2744 (καυχάομαι).
How the King James Version translates it
Across 12 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: boasting, whereof I may glory, glorying, rejoicing.
Verses using καύχησις
All 12 verses, quoted in full.
Romans 3:27 · KJV
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Romans 15:17 · KJV
I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
1 Corinthians 15:31 · KJV
I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.
2 Corinthians 1:12 · KJV
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Corinthians 7:4 · KJV
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
2 Corinthians 7:14 · KJV
For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
2 Corinthians 8:24 · KJV
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
2 Corinthians 9:4 · KJV
Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
2 Corinthians 11:10 · KJV
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 11:17 · KJV
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
1 Thessalonians 2:19 · KJV
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
James 4:16 · KJV
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Common questions
What does Strong's G2746 mean?
G2746 is the Greek word καύχησις (kaúchēsis), meaning boasting (properly, the act; by implication, the object), in a good or a bad sense.
How is G2746 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it boasting (6 times), rejoicing (4 times), glory (1 time), glorying (1 time).
How many times does G2746 appear in the Bible?
καύχησις (kaúchēsis) is tagged in 12 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does G2746 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: from G2744 (καυχάομαι).
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