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καύχησις

kauchēsis · boasting

Greek word · Strong’s number G2746 · appears 11 times in the Bible

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What it means

kauchēsis (καύχησις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “boasting”.

A reason for pride or for glorying.

How to say it

kau·chē·sis

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Taking pride in something, or what one prides oneself on.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

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Where it appears

  • Romans 3:27

    Where, then, is boasting? It was excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

  • Romans 15:17

    So I have my boasting in the Messiah Jesus in the things that pertain to God.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:31

    I die every day, I swear by the boasting about you that I have in the Messiah Jesus our Lord.

  • 2 Corinthians 1:12

    For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

  • 2 Corinthians 7:4

    Great is my boldness toward you, great is my boasting about you; I am filled with comfort, I am overflowing beyond measure with joy in all our affliction.

  • 2 Corinthians 7:14

    For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke everything to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved to be the truth.

  • 2 Corinthians 8:24

    So show to them the proof of your love and of our boasting about you in the presence of the assemblies.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:10

    As the truth of the Messiah is in me, this boasting will not be silenced for me in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:17

    What I am saying I am not saying according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:19

    For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting? Or is it not also you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

  • James 4:16

    But now you boast in your arrogant claims. All such boasting is evil.