καύχησις kauchēsis

Greek word for “pride” · Strong’s G2746 · used 11 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

καύχησις, -εως, ἡ; (καυχάομαι);

How it is translated

Glosses given for kauchēsis in context, with how often each is used:

• boasting 9
• boasting? 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Corinthians 7 (2), 2 Corinthians 11 (2), Romans 3 (1), Romans 15 (1), 1 Corinthians 15 (1), 2 Corinthians 1 (1), 2 Corinthians 8 (1), 1 Thessalonians 2 (1), James 4 (1)

Forms

• καύχησις 6
• καυχήσεως 3
• καύχησιν 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kauchēsis more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ὑπέρ huper “above/for” 3
• καυχάομαι kauchaomai “to boast” 2
• οὐχί ouchi “not!” 2
• χαρά chara “joy” 2
• ἀλήθεια alētheia “truth” 2
• λαλέω laleō “to speak” 2
• κατά kata “according to” 2
• ὡς hōs “as/when” 2

Key verses

The verses using kauchēsis that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Romans 3:27 — Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
• 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 our Lord, I die daily.
• 2 Corinthians 1:12 — 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…
• 2 Corinthians 7:4 — 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 — 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,…
• 2 Corinthians 8:24 — Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
• 2 Corinthians 11:10 — 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 — 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 — 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 — But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.