Strong's #2746: kauchesis (pronounced kow'-khay-sis)
from 2744; boasting (properly, the act; by implication, the object), in a good or a bad sense:--boasting, whereof I may glory, glorying, rejoicing.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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kauchēsis
1) the act of glorying
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from G2744
Citing in TDNT: 3:645, 423
Usage:
This word is used 12 times:
Romans 3:27: "Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works?"
Romans 15:17: "I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God."
1 Corinthians 15:31: "I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus"
2 Corinthians 1:12: "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our"
2 Corinthians 7:4: "you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort,"
2 Corinthians 7:14: "in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before"
2 Corinthians 8:24: "of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf."
2 Corinthians 9:4: "in this same confident boasting."
2 Corinthians 11:10: "no man shall stop me of this boasting in the"
2 Corinthians 11:17: "foolishly, in this confidence of boasting."
1 Thessalonians 2:19: "joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye"
James 4:16: "boastings: all such rejoicing is evil."