Definition

a boast (properly, the object; by implication, the act) in a good or a bad sense

Etymology

from G2744 (καυχάομαι);

Where the KJV renders it

• boasting
• (whereof) to glory (of)
• glorying
• rejoice(-ing)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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