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GreekG2746Noun (Feminine)

καύχησις

kauchēsis

12Occurrences
G2746Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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

from G2744 (καυχάομαι);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
a boasting, glorying: ἐτί, with genitive; ἔχω τὴν κ. ἐν Χρ. Ἰησ.; *στέφανος καυχήσεως *(Ez. l.with); of the cause of glorying, a boast ( = καύχημα).
LXX: for תִּפְאָרָה (, al)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

G:N-F

Full Description

Greek Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

καύχησις appears 12 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Corinthians
7
Romans
2
1 Corinthians
1
1 Thessalonians
1
James
1

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 15:31BSB

I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:12BSB

And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

2 Corinthians 11:17BSB

In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

2 Corinthians 7:14BSB

Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.

2 Corinthians 9:4BSB

Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.