G2744 – kauchaomai – καυχάομαι – to boast
- Strong’s ID:
- G2744
- Greek Word:
- καυχάομαι
- Transliteration:
- kauchaomai
- Pronunciation:
- kow-khah’-om-ahee
- Part of Speech:
- verb
- Etymology:
- from some (obsolete) base akin to that of αυχεω aucheo (to boast) and G2172
- Usage Count:
- 38
- Search:
- Find “kauchaomai” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
to boast
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from some (obsolete) base akin to that of αυχεω aucheo (to boast) and G2172; to vaunt (in a good or a bad sense):—(make) boast, glory, joy, rejoice.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) to glory (whether with reason or without)
2) to glory on account of a thing
3) to glory in a thing
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.