Glorying Glory

Glorying Glory

'''A — 1: καυχάομαι (Strong'S #2744 — Verb — kauchaomai — kow-khah'-om-ahee )

"to boast or glory," is always translated in the Rv by the verb "to glory," where the Av uses the verb "to boast" (see, e.g.,  Romans 2:17,23;  2 Corinthians 7:14;  9:2;  10:8,13,15,16 ); it is used (a) of "vainglorying," e.g.,  1 Corinthians 1:29; (b) of "valid glorying," e.g.,  Romans 5:2 , "rejoice;"  Romans 5:3,11 (Rv, "rejoice");   1 Corinthians 1:31;  2 Corinthians 9:2;  10:8;  12:9;  Galatians 6:14;  Philippians 3:3;  James 1:9 , Rv, "glory" (Av, "rejoice"). See Boast , Joy , Rejoice.

'''A — 2: κατακαυχάομαι (Strong'S #2620 — Verb — katakauchaomai — kat-ak-ow-khah'-om-ahee )

a strengthened form of No. 1 (kata, intensive), signifies "to boast against, exult over,"  Romans 11:18 , Rv, "glory" (Av, "boast");  James 2:13 , Rv, "glorieth" (Av, "rejoiceth");  James 3:14 , "glory (not)." See Boast , Rejoice.

'''A — 3: ἐν (Strong'S #1722 2744 — Preposition — enkauchaomai — en )

en, "in," and No. 1, "to glory in," is found, in the most authentic mss., in  2 Thessalonians 1:4 .

 1 Corinthians 13:4

'''B — 1: καύχημα (Strong'S #2745 — Noun Neuter — kauchema — kow'-khay-mah )

akin to A, No. 1, denotes "that in which one glories, a matter or ground of glorying,"  Romans 4:2;  Philippians 2:16 , Rv, "whereof to glory" (for  Romans 3:27 , see No. 2); in the following the meaning is likewise "a ground of glorying:"  1 Corinthians 5:6;  9:15 , "glorying,"  1 Corinthians 9:16 , "to glory of;"  2 Corinthians 1:14 , Rv;  2 Corinthians 9:3 , Rv;  Galatians 6:4 , Rv (Av, "rejoicing");  Philippians 1:26 (ditto);   Hebrews 3:6 (ditto). In   2 Corinthians 5:12;  9:3 the word denotes the boast itself, yet as distinct from the act (see No. 2).

'''B — 2: καύχησις (Strong'S #2746 — Noun Feminine — kauchesis — kow'-khay-sis )

denotes "the act of boasting,"  Romans 3:27;  15:17 , Rv, "(my) glorying" (Av, "whereof I may glory");  1 Corinthians 15:31 , Rv, "glorying;"  2 Corinthians 1:12 (ditto); 7:4,14 (Av, "boasting"); 8:24; 11:10,17 (ditto);   1 Thessalonians 2:19 (Av, "rejoicing");   James 4:16 (ditto). The distinction between this and No. 1 is to be observed in   2 Corinthians 8:24 , speaking of the Apostle's act of "glorying" in the liberality of the Corinthians, while in  2 Corinthians 9:3 he exhorts them not to rob him of the ground of his "glorying" (No. 1). Some take the word in   2 Corinthians 1:12 (see above) as identical with No. 1, a boast, but there seems to be no reason for regarding it as different from its usual sense, No. 2.

 James 4:16 1 John 2:16 Romans 1:30 2 Timothy 3:2